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