From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 27 21:25:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (winston.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AFC437B718 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:25:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1S5P8H93779; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:25:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) To: matt@gsicomp.on.ca Cc: js43064n@stmail.pace.edu, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Whats the difference between -STABLE & -RELEASE? In-Reply-To: <006d01c0a145$defa60e0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <200102271643.AA1900675532@stmail.pace.edu> <006d01c0a145$defa60e0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010227212508L.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:25:08 -0800 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 5 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Actually, it just means "RELease ENGineer", e.g. it's a tag put down by the release engineer. Rod Grimes came up with the convention back in 1992 and all subsequent release engineers have followed it. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message