Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:47:14 -0500 From: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> To: "Robert Watson" <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: Paul Eskello <paul.eskello@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: status of 7.0 Message-ID: <11167f520707260147l2978b521h761c01a27da6cea7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070708111105.C9997@fledge.watson.org> References: <8cdf6c720707070710k2b7e030v37683e460d983bf9@mail.gmail.com> <20070708111105.C9997@fledge.watson.org>
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On 7/8/07, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Paul Eskello wrote: > > > I was wondering when to expect 7.0 release ? Did I miss the schedule. > Any > > showstoppers ? when to expect RC1 ? > > > > Just curious. > > > > Have a great weekend. > > Ken may respond in a more detailed form, but the current stage is that we > are > waiting for the feature set to finally settle and some known outstanding > issues to resolve themselves, at which point we'll cut a first beta in the > next 2-4 weeks. As a precursor to that, monthly snapshots will likely get > built and released in the next couple of days. Hopefully testing and > feedback > from that will allow us to nail down a more specific schedule for the > release > itself. does anyone know if the july snapshots for 7.0 are going to get built? maybe i am looking in the worng spot but I didn't see them yet At this point, the imperative for developers is to wrap up any remaining > outstanding features and work on testing and bug fixing. Likewise users > :-). > We often find that even early adoption sites only really start testing > during > the RC cycle, and that's far too late to make larger changes that may be > required to address some sorts of stability issues. Getting people doing > testing the whole way through the cycle makes a big difference in the > effectiveness of the test cycle. > > There are some really great features in 7.0, and it's wonderful to be at > the > polishing and testing stage finally :-). > > Robert N M Watson > Computer Laboratory > University of Cambridge > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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