Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:32:12 +0200 From: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recent branching of CURRENT Message-ID: <471003FC.10807@intersonic.se> In-Reply-To: <47100021.2020500@FreeBSD.org> References: <470FDB17.2080900@intersonic.se> <470FE3F4.50309@FreeBSD.org> <200710130052.00714.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <47100021.2020500@FreeBSD.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > Mel wrote: >> On Friday 12 October 2007 23:15:32 Kris Kennaway wrote: >>> Per olof Ljungmark wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> Just out of curiosity, why did I fail to notice the branching of >>>> RELENG_7 and 8-CURRENT? I'm subscribed to -stable, -current and >>>> -announce. >>> Because it's an administrative change that is just a normal part of the >>> release engineering process. i.e. 7.0 is not released etc. >> >> And RELENG_7 is not considered the 'stable' branch yet, but 8-CURRENT >> is just forked for development of entirely new features? I.o.w. do we >> 2 current or 2 stable branches now? > > Those are just names, don't worry too much about it. RELENG_7 will be > the start of a new -STABLE branch once it is released. Mmmm... forgot we've got PRERELEASE too, sorry.
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