Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:49:15 -0500 (EST) From: "Mr. K." <bsd@inbox.org> To: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au> Cc: Steve Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000106154728.17678A-100000@inbox.org> In-Reply-To: <200001062041.HAA04552@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au>
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On Fri, 7 Jan 100, Darren Reed wrote: > In some email I received from Steve Ames, sie wrote: > > > > *shudder* I really, really dislike the idea of -RELEASE actually being a > > wide beta so that some code can get a workout. LAbel it beta and more people > > will use it than currently do anyway. Any reason not to release and ship a > > 4.0-beta? -CURRENT = development which scares people. Beta means most bugs > > already ironed out and looking for test by larger audience. -RELEASE should > > not be a beta, ever. > > What do you think 3.0-RELEASE was ? > This seems to be how FreeBSD works now. > There really isn't an alternative. If there were thousands of people begging for beta code to test and we decided to just call it a release, that would be a different story, but there aren't. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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