Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:01:38 +0200 From: Andreas Tobler <andreast-list@fgznet.ch> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 8.0-stable/releng? Message-ID: <4A856E42.90900@fgznet.ch> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908141443070.82989@fledge.watson.org> References: <4A847AA5.1030701@fgznet.ch> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908141443070.82989@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Andreas Tobler wrote: > >> for the record, am I correct that the upcoming 8.0 branch is like this: >> >> svn ls svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/ .. 8/ ? >> >> And not under 'releng'? >> >> I'm a bit confused about naming conventions, releng vs. stable. I have no >> problem with either, but which one is the one to be used for BETA-3/RC? >> >> Is head becoming 9.0 soon? > > Existing documentation about branch naming (-CURRENT, -STABLE, -RELEASE, etc) > remains essentially valid. The primary change of note is that in Subversion, > we now include "stable" in the branch name for -STABLE branches, rather than > using "releng" for that as well. The following should apply: > > base/head - -CURRENT > base/stable/X - X-STABLE branches > base/releng/X.Y - X.Y release engineering branches > base/release/X.Y.Z - X.Y.Z release tag > > stable/8 has been created, but neither releng/8.0 nor release/8.0.0 have been > created. > > Because the release process involves some non-atomic windows, things are > currently potentially confusing -- uname -a on head and stable/8 both report > BETA2, and the two branches are being kept in lock-step in the lead-up to > BETA3, after which point the brannches will diverge. I'm not quite sure when > head will start calling itself 9-CURRENT, but probably pretty soon. Thank you Robert! That was the thing/explanation I was looking for. Andreas
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