From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 16 14: 8:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6311B37B719; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 14:08:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA26884; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 16:08:41 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 16:08:41 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Jim Mock , "Steve O'Hara-Smith" , , j mckitrick , Subject: Re: More BETA evilness Re: BETA induced nervousness In-Reply-To: <20010316134113.I29888@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > (moved to -arch because...) > > FYI I'm fighting this cause on the -arch list, I've just quoted > this message and added cc's to the people who have the authority > to fix it. > > I want to be clear that it's not just me that's irritated by this. > > My current solution is instead of -BETA have -STABLE-RC, the > '-RC' is there to give knowledgeable people a heads-up and > the '-STABLE' is prominent enough to reduce the amount of > concern. That would probably lead to some amount of confusion as well, since the combination of "4.3" and "STABLE" anywhere would seem to indicate a post-4.3-RELEASE state (hence 4.3-STABLE), while we are actually talking about a pre-release state. If it were 4.2-STABLE-RC, that would make sense, but then you don't have the version number bump that is needed to test ports, as was pointed out. Maybe "4.3-ALMOST-THERE" or "4.3-NOT-QUITE"? :-) -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message