Hi Jordan,
I'm only about half-way through the download of 4.4-RC4 and as such, welcome
the idea of allowing more time before rolling out the final release.
Good decision.
Daniel.
Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>
> Well, there does appear to be a lot of general feeling that we should
> wait, so how would people feel about a push-back to the 14th? That
> would put it out next Friday. I'm kinda loath to keep shoving the
> release date forward since eventually people will start to wonder
> whether or not 4.4 is going to join 5.0 in being delayed by a year,
> but if there's a genuine desire to really test all the edge cases then
> I'm willing to give users and developers the time they need.
>
> A corollary to this, however, is that I will NOT be accepting any more
> feature submissions to the branch! If you can demonstrate that your
> bug fix addresses a regression from 4.3 or applies only to the
> documentation then I'll let it in, but I don't want to hear any "well,
> since we have another week, can I merge the foo driver?" requests from
> anyone. A week for polishing things up I can buy, but not a week to
> try to cram in everything that missed the deadline. The branch is now
> FROZEN, as in arctic pack ice.
>
> - Jordan
>
> From: Nik Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: 4.4 will be delayed until Saturday, the 8th of September
> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 22:46:12 +0100
>
> > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:48:30AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> > > What length of time would you prefer?
> >
> > I'd say at least a week. As various others have pointed out, it's going
> > to be at least 24-48 hours before interested parties have pulled down
> > ISOs from mirrors, burnt CDs, and installed from them. Then it's the
> > weekend, when many people have better^Wother things to do, and/or are
> > not at their day job when they might have some time to devote to
> > FreeBSD.
> >
> > N
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