From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 7 4:55:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pooh.elsevier.nl (pooh.elsevier.nl [145.36.9.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E73914F4E for ; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 04:55:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@pooh.elsevier.nl) Received: (from steve@localhost) by pooh.elsevier.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA00451; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 12:56:34 GMT (envelope-from steve) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <033d01bf40af$e217ac80$1600a8c0@SOS> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 12:56:33 -0000 (GMT) From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: Morten Seeberg Subject: Re: is -STABLE really stable? Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 07-Dec-99 Morten Seeberg wrote: > So there is actually really no easy way to stay updated on a production > machine (which has to be stable at every cost), because RELEASE is the only > actual stable system known the everyday users? This is an interesting topic in it's own right. There is a fairly large body of opinion that the right way to treat a production system is never to upgrade it at all, rather to periodically replace it with a well tested replacement using later software. Another view is to track the release stream before -stable (right now that would be 2.x) which continues to get major bug fixes and security fixes for quite a long time after it stops getting features. Another option is to watch the CVS commits on -stable and decide which ones you need and apply them. > Since 3.0 has been out for about a year, why not make more "RELEASE" > versions during a year? Or just freeze a few snapshots during the STABLE > branch? Given a 30 day beta period on each release I think that time does not permit more than three or four releases per year. Freezing snapshots doesn't really help unless they are also heavily tested. ------------------------------------------------------- Tell a computer to WIN and ... ... You lose ------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message