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Date:      Fri, 3 May 2002 09:15:01 -0400
From:      Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
To:        Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org>, Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@MINDSPRING.COM>, Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>, bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Difference between RELENG_* and RELENG_*_BP
Message-ID:  <20020503131502.28B45BB29@i8k.babbleon.org>
In-Reply-To: <200205030637.g436bab89675@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org>
References:  <200205030637.g436bab89675@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org>

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On Friday 03 May 2002 02:37 am, Dave Hayes wrote:
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| All this dovetails with something I expressed earlier, with regards to
| annotating documentation. Somehow, this community needs to be able to
| process a certan class of ideas in a format other than linear mailing
| lists. Perhaps some sort of meta-document is needed which describes
| how things currently work, and some sort of attachable discussion
| needs to go with ideas in that document. Perhaps this is the handbook?

It seems to me that the community already has something like this.  It is 
called the handbook, and it explains what "stable" is in FreeBSD (the stable 
*development* branch) quite clearly.

The existance of this thread merely demonstrates that people don't make use 
the resources that are already out there.  Other than by replacing the human 
race with somne other sort of audience, though, I don't see how we can do 
anything about *that*.

Stable is, in fact, fairly stable.  I mean, if you are going to track updates 
in a day-by-day basis, you can scarcely expect perfect stability anyway; if 
you want perfect stability, you go with releases and apply security patches.


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