From 5fad083a250ea691a37feb2086904cacd50a1aee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bruce A. Mah" Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:12:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fix a FAQ regarding release engineering. Started as a simple grammatical correction from the PR, but became more extensive when it was realized that the answer to the FAQ didn't reflect reality. PR: 38771 Submitted by: Arthur Munn --- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml | 18 +++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml index 1572081727..db5b625529 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml @@ -432,20 +432,24 @@ - As a general principle, the FreeBSD core team only release - a new version of FreeBSD when they believe that there are - sufficient new features and/or bug fixes to justify one, and - are satisfied that these new developments have been tested - sufficiently to avoid compromising the stability of the - release. Release dates are generally announced well in + The &a.re; releases + a new version of FreeBSD about every four months, on + average. Release dates are announced well in advance, so that the people working on the system know when their projects need to be finished and tested. + A testing period precedes each release, in order to ensure + that the addition of new features does not compromise the + stability of the release. Many users regard this caution as one of the best things about FreeBSD, although waiting for all the latest goodies to reach -STABLE can be a little frustrating. - Releases are made about every 4 months on average. + More information on the release engineering process + (including a schedule of upcoming releases) can be found + on the release + engineering pages on the FreeBSD Web site. For people who need or want a little more excitement, binary snapshots are made every day as discussed above.