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Date:      Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:05:52 -0500
From:      Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.org, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Subject:   Re: NO MORE '-BETA'
Message-ID:  <20010316170551.A3379@peitho.fxp.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010316135936.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:59:36PM -0800
References:  <p05010405b6d832f1a9e8@[128.113.24.47]> <XFMail.010316135936.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:59:36PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
>=20
> On 16-Mar-01 Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > At 12:26 PM -0800 3/16/01, John Baldwin wrote:
> >>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.
> >=20
> > A lot of people "should" be doing a lot of things.  Maybe these users
> > partially follow the -stable mailing list, but happen to ignore any
> > message with '-beta' in the subject because "they know" they are
> > running the -stable branch.  As I say, it is only a few people each
> > release, and it never takes more than a few minutes to calm them down,
> > but it DOES happen every release cycle.
>=20
> Is this in the FAQ yet?  If we documented our release engineering process=
 and
> put it on the website, that would eliminate most of this confusion. :)  I=
've
> somewhat attempted to do this but can't seem to get the release engineer =
to
> look at it. :-P
> =20

http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/admin.html#RELEASE-CANDIDATE

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