Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 14:01:03 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, arch@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org, Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' Message-ID: <XFMail.010316140103.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010316134349.K29888@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On 16-Mar-01 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> [010316 13:40] wrote: >> >> On 16-Mar-01 Chris Dillon wrote: >> > On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> > >> >> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:41:24AM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: >> >> > > Ok, so we have reports of confusion on the mailing lists, usenet and >> >> > > IRC. Jordan, where can I pick up a set those blinders you have on? >> >> > >> >> > Chill, Albert. I think we've already established that a) It's the >> >> > newvers.sh "BETAness" that's really freaking people out and b) That >> >> > you've yet to supply any practical name alternative, you're just >> >> > whining about it at this point. >> >> >> >> I suggested "-PRERELEASE" as a more friendly alternative. >> > >> > I suppose we could just keep it X.Y-STABLE right up until newvers.sh >> > is changed and the X.(Y+1)-RELEASE tag is laid down immediately >> > afterwards... Obviously developers and others tracking -STABLE will >> > already know when we're in a "BETA" stage (since they're on the >> > appropriate mailing lists, or should be), others don't really need to >> > be "bothered" with that fact. >> >> You missed the need for the Y+1 bump for ports testing prior to release. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> Doing 4.2-stable -> 4.3-stable -> 4.3-release -> 4.3-stable doesn't make >> much >> sense. Next.. > > He's saying 4.2-stable -> 4.3-release -> 4.3-stable -> 4.4 release ... > > Which makes sense. ... which breaks all the ports testing since you missed the Y+1 bump prior to release. I've underlined it for you this time. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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