On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Mark Blackman <m...@exonetric.com> wrote: > 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.
We'd be happy to sponsor a full-time employee at the Mall to handle rolling -STABLE into release a few more times per year. We might need a bit of help maintaining a long term release but we think it's a pretty good idea all the way around. Cheers, -matt _______________________________________________ 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"
