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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.etri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: When is 2.2R due out? Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 23:37:28 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 27 Message-ID: <318C4CA8.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> 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> <DqtDK3.91G@news2.new-york.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Louis Epstein <le@put.com> Louis Epstein wrote: > But they do seem indicators of progress toward a release version. They are *also* that, yes. > So 2.1.1 is not much of a change and needs no significant testing? I didn't say that, simply that the motivating force for a SNAP release simply isn't so much there. 2.1 *does* get significant testing, it's just done through the auspices of the -stable branch and those many commercial folks who track it. > 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. Well, please do understand that 2.2 != 2.1. If you were to upgrade a production machine running 2.1-RELEASE to 2.2, rather than 2.1.1, then I'd say that was a somewhat risky move and a gratuitous one at that. We don't make releases along the 2.1 branch (which started with 2.0.5, actually) for fun - they're actually a significant degree of extra work. We make them so that those who want *only* the most significant bug and security fix changes, no insufficently tested or experimental features, can get them. Those who wish to live out on the edge will always run 2.2.something, and 2.1 is largely irrelevant. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project