cpghost writes: > > next release: when it's done. > > Actually, it's not so bad that the PRERELEASE phase is so long: > in this time, more bugs are being fixed that would have normally > been lingering in the pr database.
The problem is not technical; no one has a problem with the idea right is better than sooner. The problem is administrative: failure to create reasonable expectations among the general user community, and particularly failure let people know when those expectations - for necessary and sufficient reasons - need to change. Case at hand: given that 7.1-Beta2 has been pending for (as far as I can tell) nearly two months (or maybe more) and - based on a casual reading of current@ - is in no danger of happening soon, the information at http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html about a November release for 7.1 is clearly a no-op. Yes, the page says "approximate" and "subject to slippage". But those should be measured against the context of an otherwise realisitic schedule; "early November" slips to "late November", not "April". (If this sees a bit of a hot button ... some of us are flashing on the many months of "almost got it" that preceded 5.0.) Robert Huff _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"