Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 05:38:45 +1200 (NZST) From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> To: "Michael R. Rudel" <mrr@thud.pcs.k12.mi.us> Cc: Christopher Schulte <christopher@schulte.org>, Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Releases Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0104100533090.38514-100000@xeon.int.nz.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0104091328100.77835-100000@thud.pcs.k12.mi.us>
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On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Michael R. Rudel wrote: > [... SNIP ...] > > Personally, I don't see a problem with the -CURRENT and -STABLE naming > scheme. As someone said, anybody who can CVSup (not to mention get the > sample CVSup files to work off of) yet not read the rest of the > documentation has other issues. Renaming -CURRENT to -DEV or -DEVEL would > be the equivlent of dulling all the knives in your house so that people > don't cut themselves. A poor analogy. A better one would be labelling the knife drawer something other than knives. > Changing the whole > release process of something that has worked for years isn't going to help > anything Nothing has been suggested about change the *process*. AFAIK, we're talking about the name. Not the process >, people are always going to be confused if you change it - if you > suddenly change the way this shit is named, I'm going to be confused when > 4.4 comes around or whatever. Said confusion, if any, would be temporary and well announced. What is being proposed is a name which helps new people out and which will still make sense long after they've joined te project. > Just chill, and instruct people to Read The > Fine Manual. AFAIK, everyone is chilled. As for discarding the issue with a RTFM, that's avoiding the issue altogether and will not achieve anything. Reasoned discussion, whch is what I thought we were doing, will. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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