From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 16 12:42:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.wanadoo.nl (smtp.wanadoo.nl [194.134.193.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9FD737B718 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:42:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steveo@eircom.net) Received: from ams-gw.sohara.org (p207.vcu.wanadoo.nl [194.134.200.135]) by smtp.wanadoo.nl (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id f2GKgDq12991 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:42:13 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:42:10 +0100 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: BETA induced nervousness Message-Id: <20010316214210.5a3dc591.steveo@eircom.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.4.60 (GTK+ 1.2.8; FreeBSD 4.3-BETA; i386) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Picking a recent example: Saverio Perugini writes: > What is a BETA system? Is it similiar to CURRENT? We get a lot of this sort of thing every time a release rolls, an idea crossed my mind, perhaps if during BETA and RC phases /etc/motd were to carry a big message like ---------------------- DO NOT PANIC - BETA is a normal phase that STABLE goes through prior to the rolling of a release. If anything it is *MORE* stable than usual during BETA as all changes are monitered by the release engineer. ---------------------- Changing BETA to RC as appropriate. It *might* reduce the effect, worth a try ? -- Life is complex - it has real and imaginary parts. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message