Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:52:44 +0000 From: Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle Message-ID: <A838D705-5B4B-4EA5-8BC6-11BEA4FF593B@exonetric.com> In-Reply-To: <20120126224921.GA26109@lonesome.com> References: <CADWvR2ioJo2oy=0FTRv-BiMHGG3KB1AERjuu0FOk_yCqsGzukg@mail.gmail.com> <201201260937.47448.jhb@freebsd.org> <6D5F6ECE-5966-4849-AFDC-7F385E2CE906@exonetric.com> <201201261322.29688.jhb@freebsd.org> <ECFE9ADA-9E54-44A6-ADCA-2511462EBB67@exonetric.com> <20120126224921.GA26109@lonesome.com>
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On 26 Jan 2012, at 22:49, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:23:43PM +0000, Mark Blackman wrote: >> = http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/release-proc.ht= ml >>=20 >> "New releases of FreeBSD are released from the -STABLE branch at >> approximately four month intervals." >=20 > That was our intention at one point. Obviously we've not stuck to = that. > (IMHO doing releases quite that frequently is probably beyond what we = can > do with volunteer staffing, but I'm not on re@ so take it as you = will.) >=20 > In any case, various people within the project have now absorbed the > lesson that "10 months between releases is too long", and are trying = to > figure out what to do about it. Indeed, I was just reviewing the last couple of years of release and the = thing that struck me was the number of BETAs and RCs for each point release. I suspect poor old RE is putting too much work into BETAs and RCs for point releases.=20 - Mark=
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