Subject: Re: When NetBSD 4.0?
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From: Mark Weinem <mark.weinem@alumni.uni-due.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/27/2007 14:50:19
Hi John,
> Umm, what regular release process? I've been following NetBSD
> since the very early days and there has never been a regular release.
>
I thought regular releases were aimed at after the release of 2.0.
That's what Alexandre Wennmacher wrote in 2005 for the german magazine
"freeX" (freeX 6/2005, Die Zukunft: NetBSD, 68-70)
> The answer to the question is, "When it's ready."
>
I think for 4.0 the answer is "When the release team decides it's ready
enough"
> } Other projects manage a release once (or even twice) a year.
>
> Yes, they release whether they have anything interesting or not.
OpenBSD for example has new interesting features with every release.
> NetBSD releases when there is something interesting and it has
> stablised.
Like support for firewire - that was interesting for me two years ago ;-)
Greetings, Mark