From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 21 15:24:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from winston.freebsd.org (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EA1437B409 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 15:24:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6LMNnt88318; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 15:23:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@freebsd.org) To: chad@DCFinc.com Cc: lamont@scriptkiddie.org, a.l.meyers@consult-meyers.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is "stable" "stable"? In-Reply-To: <20010721144206.E19014@freeway.dcfinc.com> References: <20010721182504.L857-100000@nomad.consult-meyers.com> <20010721111339.B75328-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> <20010721144206.E19014@freeway.dcfinc.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010721152349S.jkh@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 15:23:49 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 14 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: "Chad R. Larson" Subject: Re: is "stable" "stable"? Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 14:42:06 -0700 > Why is it so difficult for people to understand that calling the > head of a development branch "-stable" is just going to invite > problems? Let's not start THAT thread again either - this is sort of like trying to quench a fire by throwing kerasine on it! We established that renaming -stable would be a lot of work and nobody volunteered for flag day duty. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message