freebsd 7 release date :)

[Sam Lawrance]

On 20/08/2007, at 10:47 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 03:05:00PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>
>>
>>> just for reference only:
>>> Original release planned date of 7.0 was end of Jul. But now is  
>>> nearly end
>>> of Aug.
>>> So Which date you guess 7.0 will be released?  :D
>>
>> when it will be ready. if time is more important than quality for  
>> you get
>> simply get -current. even if not - and you would like help testing  
>> it,
>> fetch and report problems.
>
> There was obviously no intent to challenge or apply preasure in the
> question so you don't need to be snippy.   If you don't have any  
> useful
> information or at least information you think might be useful  
> (qualifier
> for my posts) then don't bother replying - at least not snippy, posts.
> We can afford to be civil - expecially when a civil question is asked.
>
> The person was just noting that the old guesses were no longer  
> operable
> and hoping that some new best guesses might have been made.   We all
> know these dates are very movable and for very good reasons.   No  
> one is
> pushing for low quality, hurried up junk.   But those best guesses by
> people in the know about how the processes if moving along are helpful
> for those of use out here in the hinterland trying to make it through
> each day.

There was nothing snippy in that post, it was just succinct.  By now,  
people in the know have learned that it really will be done "when  
it's done".