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>
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--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----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEjRJAPC5sqwhs9k2jAxRYpUeP4pMFAmAAhd4ACgkQAxRYpUeP 4pOJTA//bBeK4qjlsFAhFEgFLxyEFdWbn81vYsUvXh63tyTya2RFezxkZXnKVDQn yECIN32IJznAzW9RoKOMLPvPuKjC9jmUTTRCoIJh3PEGKuxg1v1nRqARBy/CkC/C gGlT+AD/EHWq11bjvnse+Sz73Epx6tdUyT+yyLEJr44Zee1F1VVfaLbtk57dQA6r hdBCNldOAAmyBkOcGIReqNG++as6oFl5habbzPYe72DfLoBzzTkOPuJyVFsXaBVS XwCp2GWqCFCvWVCpwjNtPFHjNOxYTEwQ+ihhv3tUxTAUJaiDs4X8iDxeRyLl+1vi phT42bzhZK+yrO3vURhY5cMEMRo0J3XxTgREG+gyWdABTiSlg+BJHZryCOfJZfrF 8J9I2/ev3NM9xlJsVCuZgBsGJezy4nWHcu7ICaw0p/JVvOe6A6q/10ekdVS1I/9+ u5/wNjZqcbxnqVQ1UqwDz/7EFcJBV+f3/3VLq2b7yw9RB6COh+lzUmlATIzOjZSh pD7Z7BfR7X4dm9u+x/jGZYewFXxU+bvCSTOmtmbEugdJGtEqWKSwq3rz8s0htuMP +p9RJfHfdKZnPdoOqtw8KgcDSzlxt/NGDvj+6VdJXg3xpMpZVU+Zqkd+w+P+l2DQ iocUWppxznaF6O1IrIcliJxkH6RNv17JSM+fQE8YObrkgvYNwmE= =Fx+8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk--
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