Re: Release Engineering plans for 7.0

From: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <almarrie_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 21:15:18 +0300
On 5/31/07, Hugo Silva <hugo_at_barafranca.com> wrote:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >  > Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> >  > > Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >  > > > Steve Kargl wrote:
> >  > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html
> >  > > > > states that the release engineering process will start
> >  > > > > in June 2007.  That is in 2 days.  Is there a more
> >  > > > > detailed plan for the 7.0 release?
> >  > > >
> >  > > > Looks like it will be more like July.
> >  > >
> >  > > And also please note that "July" means "sometime in July", not "July 1".
> >  >
> >  > July 4 anybody?
> >
> > How about July 7?
> > Would be perfect to release FreeBSD 7.0 on 2007-07-07.  ;-)
> >
> > Just kidding, of course ...  I'm aware that that would be
> > too early, unfortunately.  It's better take more time for
> > testing and shaking out the bugs.
> >
> > Personally I think that 7.0 will be a huge success.  People
> > will love things like gjournal, ZFS, the improvements in
> > the TCP and threading areas etc.  It's a pity that dtrace
> > doesn't seem to make it into the release, though.
> >
> > Best regards
> >    Oliver
> >
> >
> Looking forward to see 7.0-RELEASE, I also agree (and hope) it'll be an
> excellent release.
>
> Keep up the good work everyone!
>
> Hugo

Yea, with many great features like ULE 2.0 and threadlocking that Jeff
and other folks working on to add it to HEAD soon :)

SMPping project will be completed with FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE ;)

-- 
Regards,

-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
Arab Portal
http://www.WeArab.Net/
Received on Fri Jun 01 2007 - 16:15:19 UTC

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