From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 16 10:14:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail-100baset.rpi.edu [128.113.26.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D26337B719; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:14:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA105228; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 13:14:39 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010315194029C.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> References: <20010315180837.N29888@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010315194029C.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 13:14:37 -0500 To: Jordan Hubbard , bright@wintelcom.net From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 7:40 PM -0800 3/15/01, 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. I've only been following freebsd for two or three years, but every single time freebsd starts ramping up for a release I see some newbie freebsd users come on "lily" (our equivalent of IRC) and say "Hey, I meant to get N.x-stable, but I got N.x+1-beta!! What did I do wrong? How do I back out?" It only takes a few minutes to calm them down and say "that's just the way freebsd does things, don't worry about it", but it does happen (with different people, of course) for every release that I've seen. How about calling it: 4.3-pre-release When we then create a new branch after the release (the "super stable, critical bug-fixes only" branch), we can call that 4.3-post-release I'm not really all that fond of "4.3-post-release", but I thought I'd also bring up the question of what the easily-identifiable name for that branch should be, as long as we're talking about names. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message