Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 18:53:28 -0400 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: terry@lambert.org, scrappy@hub.org, pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial vendors registry Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970412185325.00b30650@etinc.com>
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At 01:21 PM 4/12/97 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: >> >OK, you lost me here. >> > >> >If I hack on a release, it's no longer a release, it's a -current. >> >All new work following a release must be, by definition, done against >> >a -current, not against the release. >> >> There's too much "its fixed in -current" or "it'll be in the next release" >> and not enough commitment to getting fixes and important new feature >> into the short-term. > >Fixes, maybe, if they were treated as releases themselves, and could >be applied to non-stock systems. > >But "important new features"? No way... a new feature waits for >a release. Releases are *defined* by a feature freeze. Add a >new feature, and once again, you have a -current. I said "short-term", which implied 2.3, not 3.0 in 1998. db
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