Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 13:11:51 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RELENG_4_3 calls itself -RELEASE? Message-ID: <p05101001b790838a9411@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20010802190716.A7770@freeway.dcfinc.com> References: <01080300314100.00395@spatula.home> <20010802170621.A7087@freeway.dcfinc.com> <01080301194203.00395@spatula.home> <20010802190716.A7770@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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At 7:07 PM -0700 8/2/01, Chad R. Larson wrote: >On Fri, Aug 03, 2001, Andrew Boothman wrote: > > I prefer -SECURITY, because it makes it clear this is the > > branch dedicated to security fixes and nothing else. > >Yes, but then the newbies would think this was some special >release with extra security features. And complain when they >get rooted. We go through "why isn't -STABLE really stable" >three or four times per year. > >I'd rather a tag that didn't imply some kind of promise. > >But I agree, it should be something other than -RELEASE. I agree it should change, and should not be -SECURITY or -SECURE. In the interest of keeping it simple and yet nondescript, I would prefer something like -RELEASE+ or -RELEASE-PLUS While something like BEET or RUTABAGA is also nondescript, I think that's a little too silly for this branch. I know several sysadmin's who have been very happy to have this branch around. I could see changing the *stable* branch to a name like beet, rutabaga, or maybe rawcarrot (which is then "cooked" for release... :-). Maybe that would finally get rid of the confusion of people who read too much into the name "stable". For that matter, perhaps we should name the "security-fixes" branch as -stable, and then change the branch we currently call stable to be -kitchen, and change -current to be -frontier or -scarymovie. [really, any naming scheme is fine by me personally. I'd just like to see if we could come up with something so we didn't have to debate some branch-name every three or four months. So, I hope that by tossing several disparate ideas out, maybe something will make sense. Note: 'disparate', not 'desperate' :-) ] -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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