From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 7 4:31:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pooh.elsevier.nl (pooh.elsevier.nl [145.36.9.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AC5514CC1 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 04:31:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@pooh.elsevier.nl) Received: (from steve@localhost) by pooh.elsevier.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA00430; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 12:32:00 GMT (envelope-from steve) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <030101bf40ad$3524d770$1600a8c0@SOS> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 12:31:59 -0000 (GMT) From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: Morten Seeberg Subject: RE: is -STABLE really stable? Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 07-Dec-99 Morten Seeberg wrote: > From what I understand about STABLE, itīs a branch of RELEASE, but with > bugfixes, newly added features, which has been tested in CURRENT? Not quite. Each release is (apart from the N.0 release) is a fixed point on the -stable branch (the N.0 release was off -current for 3.0 and I guess will be for 4.0 too). > But from my experience, STABLE is often is more unstable than RELEASEs, can > this be true? Is it due to the changes which are made on a day-to-day basis > on STABLE?? It can be true, RELEASEs usually follow a beta test period during which the commits are constrained somewhat. STABLE usually contains bug fixes and features merged from current. > One of my friends said, that the best way to know which STABLE version is > truly stable was to follow the stable@freebsd.org mailinglist and watch for > which STABLE version there werenīt any problems with. > This is very time consuming, so I was wondering, whether there is a way you > could let us know, when there is a "good"/"better" STABLE out? Usually it is getting old by the time anybody could know. In theory every checkin should make -stable better (but this is not a perfect world). > There is 5 days between 1104 and 1109 and only 1 day between 1109 and 1110, > does this mean that 1109 is more stable than 1110? No it just means that the snapshot didn't get made for a few days. ------------------------------------------------------- Tell a computer to WIN and ... ... You lose ------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message