Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 08:00:58 +0200 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@eircom.net> To: dan@langille.org Cc: freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Releases Message-ID: <20010411080058.1f9ca01a.steveo@eircom.net> In-Reply-To: <200104101933.f3AJXYe81872@ns1.unixathome.org> References: <200104101336.JAA16571@sjt-u10.cisco.com> <200104101933.f3AJXYe81872@ns1.unixathome.org>
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--=.UTa2ffq5nckG'+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 15:33:23 -0400 "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> wrote: DL> Well, the branch makes a good deal of sense. It stops beta from DL> getting out to the people who track -stable and allows changes to be As a regular -stable tracker who does understand what the tags mean I *want* the BETA and RC stages in -stable. The current setup is fine IMHO. If I were a commiter I would *not* want the extra branch to deal with. Some people seem to have run off with the idea the -STABLE sits almost unchanged until -BETA and then all the MFCs happen. Nothing could be further from the truth, the -BETA and -RC names are symptoms of a code *freeze* and the rate of change *drops* a *lot*, just after -RELEASE is the potentially dodgy time when a bunch of stuff backed up against the code freeze gets put through - I have always been amazed that this causes so little disruption, a real credit to the commiters that. -- Optimal hardware acceleration for Windows PC (Mac). 9.81 m/s/s applied for (at least) 2s followed by impact with solid object. Optimal software upgrade FreeBSD (OS-X). --=.UTa2ffq5nckG'+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4g (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE60/MkBT76Ak1D8yARAqjEAKCashwBwSSl6bS8JRrwKK+BXRNvOgCggHqo ut9IC0vU8Om1q0q7sTl8qXk= =1Jnt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.UTa2ffq5nckG'+-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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