Will we get a RELEASE-9.1 for Christmas?

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It's definitely not targeted at you. The 9.1 stuff is an intersection of:
>
> * personal issues with some of the people involved (ie, "real life got
> to them and that took precedence");
> * the security incident;
> * the freebsd cluster shuffling and reshuffling that was going on at
> the same time
>
> From my understanding there's enough hardware. Definitely not a
> hardware specific problem. The foundation funds and provides plenty of
> hardware, as well as yahoo and a few other companies. I don't think
> we're short of i386/amd64 hardware.
>
> It's honestly just an intersection of bad timing. Since it's a
> volunteer project, it's on the timelines of the volunteers in
> question.
>
> I think people are right though when they comment on the lack of
> communication from the project about this. See the list of things
> above to understand why communication may not have been terribly
> great. :-)
>
> I'll amend my "stuff that will help" list:
>
> * Donate to the freebsd foundation, along with opening discussions to
> them about how your organisation uses / relies upon freebsd;
> * Volunteer to join the release engineering / package building teams,
> and actively donate manpower to the project.
>
>
>
> Adrian
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Thank you very much .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk