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Date:      Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:19:30 -0500
From:      Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
To:        DanGer <danger@rulez.sk>
Cc:        Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1 Available
Message-ID:  <1111436370.10464.63.camel@opus.cse.buffalo.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1113911942.20050321210457@rulez.sk>
References:  <20050321030332.GA46390@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu> <1113911942.20050321210457@rulez.sk>

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On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 21:04 +0100, Daniel Gerzo wrote:
> Hello Ken,
>   ok, since there is official anouncement and there are already posted
>   some information to news servers like osnews, i think we should update
>   newvers.sh so people who download BETA1 build wouldn't be confused
>   with -PRERELEASE branch.
>=20
>   here is simple diff:
>=20
> --- newvers.sh.orig     Mon Mar 21 20:44:45 2005
> +++ newvers.sh  Mon Mar 21 20:45:31 2005
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
>=20
>  TYPE=3D"FreeBSD"
>  REVISION=3D"5.4"
> -BRANCH=3D"PRERELEASE"
> +BRANCH=3D"BETA1"
>  RELEASE=3D"${REVISION}-${BRANCH}"
>  VERSION=3D"${TYPE} ${RELEASE}"
>=20

Thanks for the suggestion but we can't.  Lots and lots and lots of past
experience has shown us that it really freaks some people out if
newvers.sh on a RELENG_X branch says anything other than -STABLE,
-PRERELEASE, or -RELEASE.

Just before the Release Candidates we will create the RELENG_5_4 branch
and the RCs will be based on that.  Once that's done we are free to name
that RELENG_5_4 branch "-RC1", "-RC2", etc.  But doing that sort of
thing on the RELENG_X branches has caused lots of panic-stricken email
from people who believe the RELENG_X branches are "stable branches" and
therefore should never have words like "-BETA" associated with them.

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                                                Ken Smith
- From there to here, from here to      |       kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu
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