[c-nsp] 12.2SXF?

[Tim Stevenson]

As Rodney says, it is a business decision whether a rebuild gets new 
features. SXF is the only active release vehicle we have at the 
moment, the next major release is months away.

Agree with you & others that this "rule" has been abused a bit lately...

Tim

At 07:45 PM 10/13/2006 -0400, Rodney Dunn commented:
>Just because you see it as a new feature doesn't always mean
>that. A lot of times the code is in SXF when the throttle is
>first pulled but we just can't get it all tested. When we do
>it comes up as "activated" ie: supported on a later release
>in the throttle.
>
>If the business demands it features will go in but we try very
>hard to make that a very rare exception. The possibility will always
>exist.
>
>Rodney
>
>On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:21:44PM +0200, lists at Hojmark.ORG wrote:
> > Tim,
> >
> > Your explanation below (and the system itself) made a lot of
> > sense to me. Do you know why the 'occasional exceptions' became
> > the norm in SXF, especially SXF2 and SXF5, which has a *lot* of
> > new features?
> >
> > TIA,
> > -A
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Tim Stevenson [mailto:tstevens at cisco.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 12:57 AM
> > > To: lists at hojmark.org; 'Rodney Dunn'
> > > Cc: 'cisco-nsp'
> > > Subject: RE: [c-nsp] 12.2SXF?
> > >
> > > No, not really.
> > >
> > > SX[A,B,D-F] are new feature releases. A rebuild w/only bug
> > > fixes on one of these is followed by another numeral, ie, SXD4
> > > is the 4th rebuild of SXD.
> > > It has no new features, just bug fixes over SXD3, which has
> > > only bug fixes over SXD2, etc.
> > >
> > > There are (of course) occasionally exceptions to this (a
> > > minor new feature slips into a rebuild). These are generally
> > > rare.
> > >
> > > Tim
> >
> >
> >
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Tim Stevenson, tstevens at cisco.com
Routing & Switching CCIE #5561
Technical Marketing Engineer, Catalyst 6500
Cisco Systems, http://www.cisco.com
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