Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 09:25:11 -0000 (GMT) From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@pooh.elsevier.nl> To: Theo PAGTZIS <T.Pagtzis@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org> Subject: Re: 3.2 -> 3.3-stable Message-ID: <XFMail.991210092511.steve@pooh.elsevier.nl> In-Reply-To: <13992.944768179@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
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On 09-Dec-99 Theo PAGTZIS wrote:
>
> This is definetely a paradox...
>
> A stable which is not stable...what is it (enigma) ?
>
> This definitely proves once more my thought about the erroneous of the naming
> convention and the semantics behind it.....
>
> My impression of a stable is that one develops something which has been
> tested
> to the extent that is stable, i.e won't crash unless you stress it to the
> limits (whatever the limits are). Obviously this stable should need more
> testing before one can promote it to RC or release candidate..It is only when
> the release candidate has matured in terms of bug fixes that it could move up
> to a RELEASE merging with the master branch and setting there a revertable
> milestone. From release one could then spawn a new branch that would move for
> the next version of stable---RC-----Release. In other words:
>
> 1) ----- (proposed) REL 3.2-----Stable 3.3-----RC 3.3----REL 3.3---Stable
> 3.4---RC 3.4---REL 3.4---etc..
> whereas now the scheme is
>
> 2) ------ (currently) REL 3.2----Stable 3.2---RC 3.3---REL 3.3---Stable
> 3.3----RC 3.4---REL 3.4---Stable 3.4----etc..
> Now look the situation of the crash of the stable 3.3 and try to place it in
> one of the two schemes...which one is more reasonable for you...??????
The two schemes are identical apart from the name used between release
and subsequent release candidate.
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