Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 18:48:05 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Jim Mock <mij@osdn.com> Cc: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@eircom.net>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More BETA evilness Re: BETA induced nervousness Message-ID: <p05010408b6d851c7e8db@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20010316134113.I29888@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20010316214210.5a3dc591.steveo@eircom.net> <20010316160949.A3791@guinness.osdn.com> <20010316134113.I29888@fw.wintelcom.net>
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At 1:41 PM -0800 3/16/01, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>My current solution is instead of -BETA have -STABLE-RC, the
>'-RC' is there to give knowledgeable people a heads-up and
>the '-STABLE' is prominent enough to reduce the amount of
>concern.
It isn't quite the same as 4.3-stable, because there hasn't
been a 4.3-release yet.
It also isn't a "release candidate", so -RC seems wrong to me.
Something like:
4.3-pre-release
or
4.3-precursor
seems better to me. Different enough for 'ports', but neither
are as unsettling as seeing the word "beta" pop up when you
were expecting a "stable" operating system.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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