Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 14 Jan 2021 17:56:50 +0000
From:      Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>
To:        Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-12@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Release Engineering Team <re@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r365619 - in stable/12/sys: conf sys
Message-ID:  <20210114175650.GA5896@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CACNAnaGhjU%2B9PUOr8HmuShQMRoO=WL5cpKd4FJo8W9C_5nYkBQ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <202009110004.08B04NNO072373@repo.freebsd.org> <CACNAnaGhjU%2B9PUOr8HmuShQMRoO=WL5cpKd4FJo8W9C_5nYkBQ@mail.gmail.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

--UugvWAfsgieZRqgk
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 08:17:59AM -0600, Kyle Evans wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 7:04 PM Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > Author: gjb
> > Date: Fri Sep 11 00:04:23 2020
> > New Revision: 365619
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/365619
> >
> > Log:
> >   Rename stable/12 to -STABLE, and bump __FreeBSD_version after
> >   releng/12.2 had been created.
> >
>=20
> I had wondered this before, and now I wonder again after a recent
> pkgbase discussion about versioning schemes. Why do we rename stable
> to -PRERELEASE at all? It's decidedly a (minor) downgrade to try to go
> from -PRERELEASE to -RELEASE since anyone that manages to get a
> -PRERELEASE build is still along -STABLE.
>=20

I believe the rationale here was to avoid calling the branch -STABLE
until (at least) the -RELEASE or -RC* came out.  But, we do not have
code freezes on head/main or stable branches anymore, so -PRERELEASE is
a marker for "the cycle is in progress, but the releng branch has not
necessarily been created yet."

For 13.0, there will not be a -PRERELEASE.

Glen


--UugvWAfsgieZRqgk
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc"

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
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=Fx+8
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--UugvWAfsgieZRqgk--



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20210114175650.GA5896>