From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 9 10:30:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.unixathome.org (ns1.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6886237B618 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 10:30:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from xeon (xeon.int.nz.freebsd.org [192.168.0.18]) by ns1.unixathome.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f39HTie72987; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 05:29:44 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 05:29:43 +1200 (NZST) From: Dan Langille X-X-Sender: To: Christopher Schulte Cc: Matthew Emmerton , Rasputin , Subject: Re: Releases In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010409111054.00b18008@pop.schulte.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Christopher Schulte wrote: > At 03:45 AM 4/10/2001 +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > >Give meaningful and widely used names to things which people are familiar > >with. > > -CURRENT fits all those requirements. In this case, the familiarity is reduced to those familiar with the project. Witness the frequency with which the confusion arises. > > > 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. > > Documentation is not the only factor. The name was chosen for a *reason*, > to convey a point. It's choice was not arbitrary. Is this from experience or are you guessing? > And it's since been > accepted by the development and administrative community. The people already on the project understand. They have been "indoctrinated" for lack of a better term. It's the new people which have the trouble. Perhaps with a better name that trouble could be easily avoided. > Question being: Now, are we to a point where that accepted name needs > to be reevaluated for the sake of general consensus, need or desire. > That's the real question, IMHO. I think so. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message