Scott Long wrote: So the current plan is to branch RELENG_6 (aka 6-STABLE) sometime around May or June 2005. That will begin a 1-3 month freeze and stabilization process for the 6.0 release. After that is released, we will do 6.1, 6.2 and onwards at likely 4 month intervals. In May/June 2006 we'll look at doing RELENG_7, or we might wait until Nov/Dec 2006 (12 months vs 18 months). The 5.4 release will likely be in Feb/March 2005, with a 5.5 release possibly in June/July, depending on where 6.0 is. There may be 5.x releases after 6.0 if 6.0 turns out to not be as stable as needed (as is often the case with and .0 release). -- Hi Scott, I like the idea of time-oriented vs. feature-oriented releases, especially for planning projects. This reminds me of the OpenBSD 6-month schedule. I may be a little confused by your description of 6.0. Do you mean to have 6.0 itself assume the STABLE title, and not a later 6.x version like 6.1, 6.2, or even 6.3? As you know 5.0 appeared in January 2003 but we are just now making 5.3 be STABLE. Looking at www.freebsd.org/releases/ it seems the 4.x tree has had almost a five year run, and 5.x nearly 3 years. Only now however is 5.3 becoming a version more people will run on production systems, thanks to the STABLE title. If 6.0 is truly going to be STABLE by this time next year, I wouldn't be surprised if people skip future 5.x releases until 6.0 arrives. Maybe 5.x should hold the STABLE title a little longer than you predict? Just a few thoughts from a satisfied FreeBSD user. Thank you, Richard http://www.taosecurity.comReceived on Sat Nov 06 2004 - 03:08:35 UTC
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