From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 10 14:29:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from buddha.automagic.org (buddha-nexxia.automagic.org [207.61.141.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 69C6837B422 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:29:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jabley@buddha.automagic.org) Received: (qmail 15152 invoked by uid 100); 10 Apr 2001 21:29:21 -0000 Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:29:21 -0400 From: Joe Abley To: Steve Tremblett Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Releases Message-ID: <20010410172920.N7423@buddha.home.automagic.org> References: <20010409102526S.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <200104101336.JAA16571@sjt-u10.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200104101336.JAA16571@sjt-u10.cisco.com>; from sjt@cisco.com on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:36:40AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:36:40AM -0400, Steve Tremblett wrote: > People say "read the handbook". If it is written in stone there, > someone please re-edit this section: > > -------- > 19.2.2.2. Who needs FreeBSD-STABLE? > > If you are a commercial user or someone who puts maximum stability of > their FreeBSD system before all other concerns, you should consider > tracking stable. This is especially true if you have installed the most > recent release (4.2-RELEASE at the time of this writing) since the > stable branch is effectively a bug-fix stream relative to the previous > release. > -------- > > please add "once every few months it will say BETA but don't worry, it > isn't really a beta, because it is more stable than STABLE!" > > To be honest, I don't see the release process discussed in the handbook > at all! There is a section explaining STABLE vs. CURRENT, but that's > about it. Seems to me that if the lowest-common-denominator had some way to stay stable that didn't involve using cvsup or a compiler, this would be a non-issue. Numbered binary patches, anyone? Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message