On 17 Jan 2012, at 21:09, Warner Losh wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2012, at 11:12 AM, John Kozubik wrote: >> Again, I'm not suggesting more snapshots - I am suggesting more real, bona >> fide releases. This will help people. > > I tend to agree with you. Our release engineering process isn't serving the > needs of users as much as it once did. When Walnut Creek was running release > engineering, we had releases often because they wanted to make money from > their subscriptions. This produced reasonably spaced minor releases and > except for 4-5, decently spaced major releases. Even after the torch passed > from walnut creek to others, there was still either residual pressures to > make the releases happen, or inherited mindset that keep on the same pace. > > Today we have lost our way. We have no major vendor pushing the process > along to make it happen faster.
What exactly did the major vendor to push things along? Keep nagging? I'd have thought PC-BSD and iXsystems are the natural people to to take over that role in any case. The FreeBSD foundation seems less interested in the "for end-users" angle as well. - Mark_______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
