Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:26:51 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' Message-ID: <XFMail.010316122651.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010316120906.D29888@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On 16-Mar-01 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Yes, the real problem with this is '2' (newvers.sh), there's nothing > wrong with using 'BETA' in the names on the ftp site. People who follow -stable should be reading -stable. Thus, they will read the heads up about the release schedule, and will not be surprised. If having -BETA on the ftp site for people who aren't necessarly reading -stable is ok, then it should be more than ok for people who are supposedly reading the list and know what is going on. > So either quit doing '2' or use a variant of > Terry's suggestion '-stable-rc' > > ~ % uname -srm > FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE-RC i386 Except that it's not a real release candidate. Which is why we don't just use -RC the whole time. -RC means that we would actually feel confident releasing that exact source on the CD's as foo-RELEASE. This is not true for foo-BETA, as it is a time for people to test stuff out and spot things that need to be fixed. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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