Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 20:15:00 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Cc: bright@wintelcom.net, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' Message-ID: <20010315201500.A2484@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010315194029C.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@osd.bsdi.com on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:40:29PM -0800 References: <20010315180837.N29888@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010315194029C.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:40:29PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > Hmm. I've yet to get *any* mail about BETA scaring people, and we've > been doing them for literally years at this point. I suspect you're > overreacting somewhat to Saverio Perugini's recent mail in -stable, > but I'll nonetheless entertain any suggestions on what I could call > the "pre-RC" releases without confusing them with snapshots, which > occur every day anyway, or the actual release. > Drop by the newsgroup. There was a thread last week about someone using cvsup expecting to get 4.2-stable and he got 4.3-beta. He was annoyed and confused because he thought beta meant "beta quality" (as in inferior software). 4.2-stable --> 4.2-rc1 --> 4.2-rc2 --> ... --> 4.3 -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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