From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 18 09:50:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9DB716A417 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:50:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86B4B43D45 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:50:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (dqfmhm@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8I9oVCS087072 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:50:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k8I9oVrQ087071; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:50:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:50:31 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200609180950.k8I9oVrQ087071@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20060915214303.J67333@saturn.araneidae.co.uk> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable User-Agent: tin/1.8.0-20051224 ("Ronay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-STABLE (i386)) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:50:37 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:50:42 -0000 Michael Abbott wrote: > Roland Smith wrote: > > Martin Nilsson wrote: > > > Hans Lambermont wrote: > > > .. or just stop calling it STABLE and call it RELENG_6 instead > > > > That's a good idea, IMHO. When I started with FreeBSD I found the > > difference between the branch names and cvs tags confusing. > > Let me second that. I hadn't realised that STABLE==RELENG_n (where n is > the current version number) until very recently, and I've seen the "STABLE > isn't stable" thing crop up over and over again over the last few years, > both on mailing lists and IRC. Actually, FreeBSD has three types of branches: - current a.k.a. HEAD - X-stable a.k.a. RELENG_X - X.Y security branch a.k.a. RELENG_X_Y I think it would be better to rename the 2nd one "RELENG" (instead of "STABLE"), because that's exactly what it is: the release-engineering branch from which the releases are derived. The term "STABLE" would be much better suitable for the 3rd type of branches which are currently called "security branches". Thus we would have: - current - releng - stable Then the names match exactly what the branches are: "current" is the current head of experimental development, "releng" is the release engineering branch, and "stable" is the stable branch for people who want to track only security fixes and the most critical stuff. Such appropriate naming would certainly prevent a lot of confusion. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert's Symphony number 9." -- Erwin Dieterich