From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 8 18:43:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B08651580F for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 18:43:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jedi@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 21724 invoked from network); 9 Sep 1999 01:42:51 -0000 Received: from 207-229-142-164.d.enteract.com (HELO arrubin) (207.229.142.164) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 9 Sep 1999 01:42:51 -0000 Message-ID: <002b01befa65$2e564840$010210ac@arrubin> From: "Anthony Rubin" To: Subject: Current Development Branches Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 20:46:47 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I know I will probably be shunned for the rest of my natural life for suggesting this, but here goes. How difficult would it be to change things around a little with the development branches? It seems there are a few problems with 3.3-RC (including determining what RC means) and this makes it hard in my opinion for people with production boxes to cvsup to the -STABLE branch if they are hoping to solve problems or get the latest patches and fixes. I would be in favor of a -PRODUCTION branch that can never contain code that hasn't been tested for a while. I would also like to propose a -BETA branch which would be -PRODUCTION with new code added. It seems to me that the name -STABLE is confusing many people and they seem to believe that it isn't actually stable unless it is in the -STABLE branch when this isn't always the case. The only other suggestion is a possible change of -CURRENT to -DEVELOPMENT which would better describe what that branch is actually for. Thanks for your time, I'm getting into my firesuit now. Anthony Rubin Hoffman Estates, IL jedi@enteract.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message