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Date:      Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:28:33 -0500
From:      "Glen Barber" <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
To:        "Robert Huff" <roberthuff@rcn.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Release schedules
Message-ID:  <4ad871310812121028m4e368da4n69e06d592e312eb0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <18754.42851.295211.155980@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
References:  <200811121259.25046.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za> <20081112120147.GA62386@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <f2c294a10812120920l4d11bebfgd5c9208336b075b@mail.gmail.com> <18754.42851.295211.155980@jerusalem.litteratus.org>

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On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote:
>
>        "When it's ready" used to be the scheduling principle.
>        Then came 5.0 debacle: behind schedule big-time (and arguably
> not ready when it went out the door).
>        I remember discussion afterwards, where there seemed to be
> agreement there ought to be a more-or-less regular schedule of major
> releases every two years (plus or minus) with minor releases every
> few months.
>        Looking at "www.freebsd.org/releases/index.html", that's
> getting stretched.  The RC-1 announcement for 7.1, originally
> scheduled for early September, is now listed as last week ... and
> didn't actually happen.  (Unless I missed the memo.)
>

The RC-1 announcement for 7.1 did come out last week (check the
stable@ archives).

I personally would rather wait for quality than pushed quantity.

-- 
Glen Barber


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