Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 15:18:06 -0700 From: bmah@FreeBSD.org (Bruce A. Mah) To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.org, Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Difference between RELENG_* and RELENG_*_BP Message-ID: <200205022218.g42MI6c4073672@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <3CD1B790.DB547674@mindspring.com> References: <200205022047.g42Klxb84582@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> <3CD1ACD6.5B2432DF@mindspring.com> <200205022128.g42LSXjr072995@intruder.bmah.org> <3CD1B790.DB547674@mindspring.com>
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If memory serves me right, Terry Lambert wrote: > "Bruce A. Mah" wrote: > > > either for a code slush, > > > or for other work that may not make it back in until it's > > > complete, which might take a while. > > > > Nope. The original poster asked about RELENG_* branches; they aren't > > used that way, which I'm sure you know. > > ??? What I'm saying is that we almost never put something on a RELENG_* branch until it "make[s] it back in" to HEAD. Instead, changes get merged *from* HEAD *to* a RELENG_4 branch. Your original text gave what I thought was an erroneous impression. > I guess it's not obvious, since FreeBSD refers to things in > general a little differently: > > ------------------ ------------------------------------------- > The tag What people commonly call it > ------------------ ------------------------------------------- > RELENG_X -STABLE (X.x branch) > RELENG_X_Y_RELEASE -RELEASE (version X.Y) > RELENG_X_Y -SECURITY (X.Y branch) > RELENG_X_Y_BP RELENG_X at the time RELENG_X_Y was created > ------------------ ------------------------------------------- We don't have RELENG_X_Y_RELEASE tags, they're really RELENG_X_Y_0_RELEASE. But that's a bit of a nitpick. You're essentially right. > -STABLE is "other work that may not make it back in until > it's complete" relative to -SECURITY, and RELENG_(X+1) in > progress the same, relative to -STABLE (but you have an > implied tag that doesn't exist until it's "complete"). ENOPARSE > > Anyone wanting more information about how we *really* use the RELENG_* > > branches should take a read through Murray Stokely's release > > engineering article: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/index.html > > Yes; this is a very good document. Unfortunately, it doesn't > provide a translation from RELENG-speak into mailing list speak; > the diagram doesn't really show a derivation relationship quite > correctly. Really, you need a tird dimention, or an angled line > in the diagram to get it right (particularly X.Y-STABLE). He did > a much better one on the whiteboard. Satoshi does a pretty good > one on a whiteboard, too; so does Julian. 8-). Yeah. Been too long since I used pic though...I wonder where my Tenth Edition UNIX manuals went to... Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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