Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 15:45:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Releases Message-ID: <200104111345.PAA67262@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200104102154.f3ALsce84245@ns1.unixathome.org>
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Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> wrote: > On 10 Apr 2001, at 14:48, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 06:32:15AM +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > > > AFAIK, the thread to date has been about whether or not [something like] > > > the label "-development" would cause less confusion than "-current". My > > > > And then we'd have people who CVSup'ed -development because they wanted to > > develop an application on FreeBSD. > > Thanks. I like that one. Then -unstable is a better name then - > development. But we've moved on from this I think. So far, I like -experimental best. However, I'd actually vote for keeping it -current. It's explained in the FAQ and in the Handbook, so if anyone needs a clue, we can drag his nose into that direction. It seems that there is some confusion about the names of branches, release tags and actual system names (those taken from newvers.sh). These three are all different things, and this should be very carefully explained in the documentation -- in particular for those who are not familiar with CVS. Oh by the way, there's an error in the FAQ. In section 7.37 it says: ``Once the release, 4.1-RELEASE in this example, has been made, the branch will be renamed to 4.1-STABLE'' That's nonsense, of course. There is no renaming of branches. The name of the branch is 4-stable (a.k.a. RELENG_4), both before and after the release. The release is just a point in time on the ongoing 4-stable branch. Maybe it would reduce confusion somewhat if people would just stop saying ``4.1-stable'' etc. Those simply do not exist. I would also vote for ``uname -r'' saying ``4-STABLE'' and appending the date (similar to the snapshot naming), like ``4-STABLE-20010509''. This is much more useful than ``4.3-STABLE'', IMO. Just my 2 Euro cents ... Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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