On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:57:16AM -0500, Richard Rauch wrote:
> 2.0 will come out when it will come out, I expect.  I doubt that anyone's
> forgotten about it.  (^&
> 
> Note that the statement was something like "expecting" or "about"
> 1 to 2 weeks.
> 
> If I were to speculate wildly and without any foundation, I'd suspect
> that they have decided to do a 5th RC, but have not yet got the RC
> ready.  (After 4 RCs, I'd suspect that if there were no (major)
> known problems, they'd go ahead and roll it out.)

I don't know if a RC5 is planned, but I guess the release cycle is stalled
waiting for the box called "releng.netbsd.org" to be back up. This is where
the ticket tracking system is, which is an essential part of the release
process.
releng.netbsd.org is down because of a hardware problem. Admins are working
on it, but the box is in a colo facility, meaning that someone has to
go to the colo, examine the box to find which part failed, buy the
remplacement part and go to the colo again. the admins are all volunteers,
and can't easily escape during work hours to deal with this ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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