Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 03:45:51 +1200 (NZST) From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> To: Christopher Schulte <christopher@schulte.org> Cc: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Releases Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0104100342440.38514-100000@xeon.int.nz.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010409101533.00ace930@pop.schulte.org>
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On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Christopher Schulte wrote: > Change the designation just because some admins don't know how to RTFM? I > don't think so... They fu*ked up. Plain and simple. -CURRENT makes sense, > and more importantly is documented for those who take the time to look. This is beginning to sound like a human-computer interface issue. If you read comp.risks, you'll see that issues such as this arise time and time again. It's almost similar to POLA. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck.... Give meaningful and widely used names to things which people are familiar with. > I'm not as hot about the BETA designation, but generally feel it should > be left alone simply because it's documented, and thus should NOT be a > problem. By this designation, we could call a brake a clutch and get away with it because it's all documented. The problem is not with the documentation. It's with the name. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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