On Saturday, 6 November 2004 at 18:03:19 -0700, Scott Long wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Saturday, 6 November 2004 at 18:39:13 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 06:03:20PM +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote.. >>> >>>> Hello Wilko, >>>> >>>> Am Samstag, 6. November 2004 16:21 schrieb Wilko Bulte: >>>> >>>>> On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:26:16AM +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette >>>>> wrote.. >>>>> >>>>>> I cannot imagine to deliver/sell CDs with 5.3-RELEASE on it with a >>>>>> broken gvinum RAID5 where the fix is available for (roughly) 2 >>>>>> weeks now. >>>>> >>>>> You obviously have NO idea what it means to build releases for >>>>> all the architectures etc etc. >>>> >>>> My apologies if I made you upset... >>> >>> Oh, not upset. Problem is that there are most likely lots of other >>> bugs still in 5.3-R. >>> >>> Thing is, at some point we just need to call it a day and put the >>> generated bits on the ftp-servers. Otherwise there would never >>> be a RELEASE.. >> >> I can appreciate that the leadup to 5.3-RELEASE has been painful, but >> what's the purpose of a release which doesn't work? For a large >> number of Vinum users, 5.3 will be a release to avoid. > > Lukas and I discussed this extensively, and the decision was agreed > upon. No question: to clarify, you and I also discussed the matter and agreed on this course of action.. Unfortunately, the end users may disagree with all of us. As I said, the decision wasn't easy. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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