From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 16 13:40:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B16D37B718; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 13:40:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2GLcrG64795; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 13:38:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 13:39:04 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Chris Dillon Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org, sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, bright@wintelcom.net, Jordan Hubbard , Kris Kennaway Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16-Mar-01 Chris Dillon wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:41:24AM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: >> > > Ok, so we have reports of confusion on the mailing lists, usenet and >> > > IRC. Jordan, where can I pick up a set those blinders you have on? >> > >> > Chill, Albert. I think we've already established that a) It's the >> > newvers.sh "BETAness" that's really freaking people out and b) That >> > you've yet to supply any practical name alternative, you're just >> > whining about it at this point. >> >> I suggested "-PRERELEASE" as a more friendly alternative. > > I suppose we could just keep it X.Y-STABLE right up until newvers.sh > is changed and the X.(Y+1)-RELEASE tag is laid down immediately > afterwards... Obviously developers and others tracking -STABLE will > already know when we're in a "BETA" stage (since they're on the > appropriate mailing lists, or should be), others don't really need to > be "bothered" with that fact. You missed the need for the Y+1 bump for ports testing prior to release. Doing 4.2-stable -> 4.3-stable -> 4.3-release -> 4.3-stable doesn't make much sense. Next.. -- John Baldwin -- 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