On 26 Jan 2012, at 22:49, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:23:43PM +0000, Mark Blackman wrote: >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/release-proc.html >> >> "New releases of FreeBSD are released from the -STABLE branch at >> approximately four month intervals." > > That was our intention at one point. Obviously we've not stuck to that. > (IMHO doing releases quite that frequently is probably beyond what we can > do with volunteer staffing, but I'm not on re@ so take it as you will.) > > In any case, various people within the project have now absorbed the > lesson that "10 months between releases is too long", and are trying to > figure out what to do about it.
Indeed, I was just reviewing the last couple of years of release and the thing that struck me was the number of BETAs and RCs for each point release. I suspect poor old RE is putting too much work into BETAs and RCs for point releases. - 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"
