From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 3 10:37:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gifw.genroco.com (genroco.com [205.254.195.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4E5A37B413 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:37:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hetzels@westbend.net) Received: from gi2.genroco.com (IDENT:root@gi2.genroco.com [192.133.120.3]) by gifw.genroco.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA10364 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 12:37:07 -0500 Received: from scot.genroco.com (scot.genroco.com [192.133.120.125]) by gi2.genroco.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA03453 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 12:37:07 -0500 Message-ID: <01a601c11c42$ead177a0$7d7885c0@genroco.com> From: "Scot W. Hetzel" To: References: <01080300314100.00395@spatula.home> <20010802170621.A7087@freeway.dcfinc.com> <01080301194203.00395@spatula.home> <20010802190716.A7770@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: RELENG_4_3 calls itself -RELEASE? Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 12:37:06 -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 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 From: "Garance A Drosihn" > At 7:07 PM -0700 8/2/01, Chad R. Larson wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 03, 2001, Andrew Boothman wrote: > > > I prefer -SECURITY, because it makes it clear this is the > > > branch dedicated to security fixes and nothing else. > > > >Yes, but then the newbies would think this was some special > >release with extra security features. And complain when they > >get rooted. We go through "why isn't -STABLE really stable" > >three or four times per year. > > > >I'd rather a tag that didn't imply some kind of promise. > > > >But I agree, it should be something other than -RELEASE. > > I agree it should change, and should not be -SECURITY or -SECURE. > In the interest of keeping it simple and yet nondescript, I would > prefer something like -RELEASE+ or -RELEASE-PLUS > How about naming the RELENG_X_Y branches -SQUASH? It's still a vegetable, and is descriptive that this branch squashes bugs. Scot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message