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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!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: Wed, 01 May 1996 19:05:10 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 26 Message-ID: <31881834.41C67EA6@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> 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: > 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. 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. 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. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project