From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 27 04:09:39 2005 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 E483816A420 for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 04:09:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DF4143D1D for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 04:09:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd5mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.232]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IH40064ORK3FI20@l-daemon> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 22:09:39 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml10so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.80]) by pd5mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IH400ENJRK3SZ40@pd5mr1so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 22:09:39 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IH400H8JRK277@l-daemon> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 22:09:39 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 21:09:38 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <20050526235805.N5798@zoraida.natserv.net> To: Francisco Reyes Message-id: <42969D82.9040102@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 References: <3248.172.16.0.199.1116876092.squirrel@172.16.0.1> <42937D06.1070309@samsco.org> <20050526235805.N5798@zoraida.natserv.net> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050406) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 04:09:40 -0000 Francisco Reyes wrote: > So why have a 6.X naming convention to begin with? > Why not just stay in 5.X name wise? Because 5.x has been declared to be STABLE, and some of the changes in 6.x will require that applications (and especially kernel modules) be recompiled (which isn't allowed on a stable branch). > Is the goal to have a new major branch every 2 years? Something like that, yes. Colin Percival