Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 17:38:49 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, nash@mcs.net, kong@kkk.ml.org, current@freebsd.org, aryder@bestweb.net, asami@cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: Making world today Message-ID: <199801120138.RAA02641@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <11733.884504253@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 10, 98 11:37:33 pm
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amen brother! current is the bleeding edge. stable is for those that dont want to or cant afford to bleed. stable is also known as RELENG_2_2 in the cvs tree at this time. jmb Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Seems that way. Maybe we should start thinking about how to eliminate > > these slips. We are gaining a reputation lately. > > It is the nature of -current to break occasionally and I would be no > means wish to get so anal about this that the whole intention of > -current was lost, namely to be a place to work out new stuff and, > yes, occasionally break things in the process. That is why -current > has always been a strictly no-warranty proposition with warning > stickers stuck all over it. The complains we've been getting lately > stem, I think, more from the fact that a lot of the wrong people are > now running -current rather than any major instability there. Hell, I > remember when running -current was a good way to lose *filesystems* > and things have definitely come a hell of a long way from there. ;-) > > Jordan >
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