From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 15 7:55:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ddg.com (eunuch.ddg.com [216.30.58.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E552537BAF7 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 07:55:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) Received: from eel (24.93.61.100) by mail.ddg.com with SMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.1); Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:55:39 -0600 From: Richard Wackerbarth To: insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net Subject: Re: transition... Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:48:23 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <20000315072058.C24016@lunatic.oneinsane.net> In-Reply-To: <20000315072058.C24016@lunatic.oneinsane.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00031509553800.01319@eel> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote: > Well, > Here we are again. Another branch off the FreeBSD code and the mailing > lists are going to be confusing. CURRENT is starting to see posts of the > 5.0 code and STABLE is starting to see things of 4.0. I read CURRENT and > STABLE at the moment because I have myservers on 3.x and my laptop > running 4.0. > > Just thought I would bring it up. Maybe we should have another mailing > lists for the other version. > > 3.x-STABLE is said to make it to 3.7 (If the timeline stays the same it > will be almost a year before we reach this point) > > 4.x-RELEASE (Currently in the middle) > > 5.0-CURRENT (The new branch (HEAD) for current) Yep. But why call them "stable", "current", etc. Just call the FreeBSD3, FreeBSD4, FreeBSD5 and alias the existing lists to them. Or, to ease the transition, keep "current" for 4.x and start a new list for 5.x. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message