Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 05:29:43 +1200 (NZST) From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> To: Christopher Schulte <christopher@schulte.org> Cc: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Releases Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0104100522430.38514-100000@xeon.int.nz.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010409111054.00b18008@pop.schulte.org>
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On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Christopher Schulte wrote: > At 03:45 AM 4/10/2001 +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > >Give meaningful and widely used names to things which people are familiar > >with. > > -CURRENT fits all those requirements. In this case, the familiarity is reduced to those familiar with the project. Witness the frequency with which the confusion arises. > > > I'm not as hot about the BETA designation, but generally feel it should > > > be left alone simply because it's documented, and thus should NOT be a > > > problem. > > > >By this designation, we could call a brake a clutch and get away with it > >because it's all documented. The problem is not with the documentation. > >It's with the name. > > Documentation is not the only factor. The name was chosen for a *reason*, > to convey a point. It's choice was not arbitrary. Is this from experience or are you guessing? > And it's since been > accepted by the development and administrative community. The people already on the project understand. They have been "indoctrinated" for lack of a better term. It's the new people which have the trouble. Perhaps with a better name that trouble could be easily avoided. > Question being: Now, are we to a point where that accepted name needs > to be reevaluated for the sake of general consensus, need or desire. > That's the real question, IMHO. I think so. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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