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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news2.new-york.net!main.put.com!not-for-mail From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: When is 2.2R due out? X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] X-Nntp-Posting-User: le Lines: 32 Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <DqtDK3.91G@news2.new-york.net> References: <4lgt27$rme@church.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <4ljdbg$ng0@uriah.heep.sax.de> <DqI2w3.DyI@news2.new-york.net> <31844830.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <DqoIwz.2KC@news2.new-york.net> <31881834.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> X-Trace: 831100898/10388 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 05:21:39 GMT Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote: : Louis Epstein wrote: : > summer(Septemberish)...it's been almost six months since 2.1R hit the FTP : > sites,so if there is an every-six-months frequency,one would expect 2.1.1 : > to be imminent,and 2.2 not to be with us until near year-end...yet 2.1.1 has : > no SNAP like the ones that showed 2.1R was imminent,while 2.2 is rumored for : > months ahead of what would be expected... : : I think you're laboring under a misapprehension as to what the SNAPs are : for or what their releases imply. SNAPs are, quite simply, for the : benefit of us and those developers who are willing to help us out by : testing them and giving feedback. The fact that it also gives users a : window into what we're up to and occasional access to a desired new : feature is merely a nice side-effect. But they do seem indicators of progress toward a release version. : So there's not much point in releasing SNAPs of code that isn't changing : much or for which significant testing is not required - that's not the : purpose of the SNAP releases. So 2.1.1 is not much of a change and needs no significant testing? : That said, I may break the rules a little and release a 2.1 SNAP if it : looks like 2.1.1 is going to be delayed a lot longer, but I'm going to : try to avoid that since it would be a radical departure from our : approach to snapshots and would probably confuse people more than : anything else. Well,the cited date for 2.2 makes it look like it will be out so soon after 2.1.1 that one wonders if slippage for 2.1.1 will make it D.O.A.