HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

Wilko Bulte wb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Sat Dec 17 14:08:14 PST 2005


On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 01:54:34PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote..
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:04:05AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> > There will be three FreeBSD 6 releases in 2006.
> 
> While this is nice, may I suggest that it is time to put aside/delay one
> release cycle and come up with a binary update mechanism supported well by
> the OS?  Increasing the speed of releases is good.  Increasing the number
> of deployed systems out of date because there are no easy binary upgrade
> mechanisms is bad.
> 
> It has been bad, it's getting worse.

So, when will you fix it?  Or hire someone to fix it?  FreeBSD after
all is mostly a volunteer operation.

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org


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