Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:47:38 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: Jonathan Vasquez <jvasquez1011@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Document improvement Message-ID: <201002171347.38786.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <c2e360c71002141124k389f33fbg866cac844bf2ba3c@mail.gmail.com> References: <c2e360c71002141124k389f33fbg866cac844bf2ba3c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sunday 14 February 2010 2:24:19 pm Jonathan Vasquez wrote: > URL: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/version-guide/decision- points.html > > <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/version-guide/decision- points.html>CURRENT: > "If you are not immediately planning on going into production, you are > willing to work through a certain number of problems, and a new major > release is upcoming within the next few months, you may wish to investigate > installing that branch to help the project to test it and stabilize it to > make it the best release possible in the medium to long term." > > QUESTION: What branch are you referring to? CURRENT? If so then you must add > the CURRENT tag to this sentence. > > IMPROVED: "If you are not immediately going into production, and you are > willing to work through a certain number of problems, then you may wish to > install the CURRENT branch. In doing so you can help the project test and > stabilize it and make the next release the best it can possibly be." I'm not sure which branch it is talking about actually. It probably is HEAD (which is what the next bullet point references), but to me it can make sense to start tracking stable prior to an X.Y release with the plan of adopting the X.Y release. -- John Baldwin
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