Aren't the snapshots running fairly well vetted code anyway - only using code that's been accepted into the source tree? Obviously not as well vetted as the -STABLE and -RELEASE, of course.
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Peter N. M. Hansteen <pe...@bsdly.net> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 01:56:09AM -0400, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: >> I know, it'll happen when it happens... >> >> I have a few servers that could really use the updated SMP stuff that >> -current has. For some applications it's a night and day difference, but I'm >> not all to comfortable running -current on production machines. I'm just >> trying to gauge whether or not i should hold out a bit longer or just bite >> the bullet and test some snapshots. With 6.0 being released in September i >> am not sure if i should expect 6.1 any time soon. > > For most of the project's history, it has followed the six month release cycle > quite consistently, with some deviations when absolutely necessary (such as > the events that lead to PF being written), but generally releases have been > dated May 1st or November 1st. > > As far as I know no schedule has been published for upcoming releases, but I > would speculate that the six month cycle is quite well embedded in the > developers' > lives and will be the norm going forward. That said, the ongoing SMP work is > one of those things that could have tentacles that have to be dealt with > during > a slightly longer timespan than the ordinary six month cycle. > > Do keep in mind that it's only early November - if the project had stuck to > the ordinary release schedule, we would only have had 6.0-release since the > day > before yesterday. Come May (or possibly earlier) we'll know for sure how > closely > the 6.1 release will stick to the established schedule. > > In the meantime, there are worse things knowledgeable OpenBSD users can do > with > their time than trying out snapshots to get the feel for how development is > progressing. > > -- > Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team > http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ > "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" > delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds. > -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse
