From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 29 18: 6:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-172.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7E5537B401 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 18:06:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (topperwein.dyndns.org [192.168.168.10]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6U180h07360 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 21:08:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 21:07:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: Chris BeHanna To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: is "stable" "stable"? In-Reply-To: <20010723095250.B66779-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Lamont Granquist wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, A. L. Meyers wrote: > > It seems to me that it would be in the very best interest of > > FreeBSD to apply whatever quality controls are appropriate to > > ensure that "stable" means what it says. > > You're checking out the head of a development tree. It will never > be stable in your sense. As mentioned before it might theoretically > be best to rename "stable" but it needs a volunteer (you?) to do the > work to fix all the breakage which will result. > > > Do you seriously expect > > all users to go thru the testing procedures enumerated below? > > Then use a point release with the security patches applied. I.e., track RELENG_4_3 instead of RELENG_4. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message