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Date:      Fri, 6 Oct 2000 13:43:42 +0700 (NSS)
From:      Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>
To:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Cc:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, developers@FreeBSD.org, security@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Stable branch
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010061341370.80621-100000@iclub.nsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20001006014106.A97336@mithrandr.moria.org>

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hi, there!

On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:

> > >Otherwise would do a PR spin with the following patch to 3.x would do
> > >the trick (I'd call it -solid, because -stable is suitable for
> > >production machines).
> > 
> > Personally, I would equate "-SOLID" with "suitable for production 
> > machines" whereas -STABLE would be "OK for application developers
> > and eager/early adopters but still settling down to the confidence 
> > level of -SOLID."
> > 
> > Which might imply setting things up so that the -STABLE branch
> > becomes -SOLID after, say, a good .2 release.
> 
> Then people will say, "Oh no, it's the first -SOLID release, we should
> only start using it after two -SOLID releases".

I think ERRATA's for releases should be maintained more actively
(they should contain all bug fixes)
so that -SOLID will be -RELEASE + patches applied from ERRATA

/fjoe



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