Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 09:47:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Tremblett <sjt@cisco.com> To: ben@freebsd.org (Ben Smithurst) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Further question Re: cvsupped to RELENG_4 but got 4.3-RC Message-ID: <200104051347.JAA03586@sjt-u10.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <20010405134044.A72405@scientia.demon.co.uk> from "Ben Smithurst" at Apr 05, 2001 01:40:44 PM
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+--- Ben Smithurst wrote: | | Did you read the first sentence of that FAQ entry? "Short answer: it's | just a name." | | If you cvsup the RELENG_4 branch, you're getting FreeBSD-stable, whether | it be called -STABLE, -RC, -BETA, -FISHCAKE, -UNSTABLE-AS-HELL, or | even -CURRENT if someone felt like playing an April Fool's day joke in | /sys/conf/newvers.sh. :-) | I was under the impression that 4-STABLE was primarily for bugfixes applied to the 4.2-RELEASE codebase, and 4-CURRENT is for development of new features. Given that rationale, 4.3-RC should be a preliminary merge of CURRENT code into STABLE. The intruduction of (relatively) unproven code into an established as-stable-as-possible codebase introduces instability until after it has been tested, therefore just because 4.3-RC == 4-STABLE, that does not imply that 4.3-RC == stable. People aren't concerned with the NAME, they are concerned about updating production machines to what is supposedly the latest bugfixed version, and getting a beta version instead. While the code in the new features may be of the highest quality and could possibly be bug free, if I'm running a frontline webserver I don't want to be the guy who discovers a bug in this new code. Then again, once I have a working config on that webserver, I shouldn't be updating all that often and only for specific fixes, but that is another can of worms. I'd prefer to stay with 4-STABLE from the date of the codefreeze as opposed to 4.3-RC. I'll be waiting until 4.3-RELEASE before updating. my $0.02 (Canadian) -- Steve Tremblett Cisco Systems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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