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Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 22:09:48 -0400
To: "Craig Boston" <craig@meoqu.gank.org>,
	"Chris Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org>, "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Subject: Re: -PRERELEASE (was: Difference between RELENG_* and RELENG_*_BP)
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At 6:12 PM -0500 5/2/02, Craig Boston wrote:
>Chris Faulhaber said:
>>Yep, though it mentions -BETA instead of -PRERELEASE:
>>   http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#RELEASE-CANDIDATE
>
>I may be wrong, but I thought -BETA was only used when
>HEAD becomes -STABLE (i.e. right before the release of
>FreeBSD 4.0, 5.0, etc...)

I do think it is appropriate to use "beta" when we're
closing in on the "<x>.0-release" of a new branch, and to
use "pre-release" when closing in on "<x>.1-release" (etc).

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