From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 8 19:48:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA26906 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 19:48:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA26885 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 19:48:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0zRSb3-0003kF-00; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 19:48:01 -0700 Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 19:47:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: kris@gwyneth.gric.com cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Future of -stable? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 8 Oct 1998 kris@gwyneth.gric.com wrote: > Here's something I've been wondering about for a bit but I've never really > gotten a straight answer. Currently I'm using 2.2.7-stable, however I just > got a new larger drive and I want to install 3.0-beta and follow it > through release and on into 3.0-stable if possible. Anyhow I've used cvsup > a lot and I'm wondering once 3.0 is released, will there be a 3.0-stable? > And does this mean that for a short time there will be a 3.0-stable and a > 2.2-stable (till 2.2.8 is released). Or will the 3.0.X development still > be called current? Probably. You can still cvsup 2.1-stable to this day. It would probably be a lot of work for somebody to merge 3.0-current with 3.0-stable considering the amount of work 3.0 needs before a 3.1 or 3.0.1 release, so don't expect a 3.0-current/3.0-stable split too soon. > I'm sure I probably would be more well informed had I been around during > the 1.0 to 2.0 transition. Any hints or insight would be appreciated. I'm > subbed to the list so feel free to reply there if you think I'm not the > only one wondering.TIA I was around between 1.1.5.1 and 2.0-Alpha. In fact 1.1.5.1 was the first version I installed. The process was quite a bit different back then, as development on 1.1.x had to abandoned for legal reasons. The -stable branch concept was not created for quite a while after 2.0. > -Kris Zentner Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message