From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 9 18:01:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA04407 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 18:01:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shrimp.dataplex.net (shrimp.dataplex.net [208.2.87.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA04337 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 18:00:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) Received: from [208.2.87.4] (user4.dataplex.net [208.2.87.4]) by shrimp.dataplex.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA08170; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 20:00:14 -0600 (CST) X-Sender: rkw@mail.dataplex.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <199803100031.RAA08173@freebie.dcfinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 19:59:38 -0600 To: Matt Behrens From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: 2.2.5-stable is now in BETA test. Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk At 7:23 PM -0600 3/9/98, Matt Behrens wrote: >On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Chad R. Larson wrote: > >> Ummm... I probably won't be the only one who asks, "Should that subject >> line reference 2.2.6? > >It's 2.2.5-STABLE until 3.0 moves into STABLE. 2.2.6-RELEASE, sure! >2.2.6-BETA, maybe. But not 2.2.6-STABLE. (: The status of the 2.2 branch is not a function of the status of the 3.0 branch. 2.1 is still a "STABLE" branch. Frankly, I wish that people would think of "DEVELOPMENT", "ALPHA", "BETA", "STABLE", etc. as descriptions of the state of a development tree rather than the name of it. Once a branch reaches "stability", is SHOULD remain that way. Unfortunately, some enhancements/corrections have the undesirable effect of temporarily destablizing things. However, that is a risk that you take in grabbing the head of the branch rather than some point that has received enough testing to validate its stability. In particular, we are now in a beta test phase anticipating the 2.2.6 release. mkdir FreeBSD ; cd FreeBSD mkdir FreeBSD-2.1 populate it mkdir FreeBSD-2.2 populate it mkdir FreeBSD-3.0 populate it ln -s FreeBSD-2.2 FreeBSD-STABLE ln -s FreeBSD-3.0 FreeBSD-DEVELOPMENT ln -s FreeBSD-2.2 FreeBSD-2.2.6-BETA Richard Wackerbarth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message