Re: status of 7.0

On 7/8/07, Robert Watson <rwatson_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Paul Eskello wrote:
>
> > I was wondering when to expect 7.0 release ? Did I miss the schedule.
> Any
> > showstoppers ? when to expect RC1 ?
> >
> > Just curious.
> >
> > Have a great weekend.
>
> Ken may respond in a more detailed form, but the current stage is that we
> are
> waiting for the feature set to finally settle and some known outstanding
> issues to resolve themselves, at which point we'll cut a first beta in the
> next 2-4 weeks.  As a precursor to that, monthly snapshots will likely get
> built and released in the next couple of days.  Hopefully testing and
> feedback
> from that will allow us to nail down a more specific schedule for the
> release
> itself.


does anyone know if the july snapshots for 7.0 are going to get built?
maybe i am looking in the worng spot but I didn't see them yet

At this point, the imperative for developers is to wrap up any remaining
> outstanding features and work on testing and bug fixing.  Likewise users
> :-).
> We often find that even early adoption sites only really start testing
> during
> the RC cycle, and that's far too late to make larger changes that may be
> required to address some sorts of stability issues.  Getting people doing
> testing the whole way through the cycle makes a big difference in the
> effectiveness of the test cycle.
>
> There are some really great features in 7.0, and it's wonderful to be at
> the
> polishing and testing stage finally :-).
>
> Robert N M Watson
> Computer Laboratory
> University of Cambridge
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