From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 9 10:50: 1 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 958B937B422 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 10:49:57 -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 f39Hnre73105; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 05:49:53 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 05:49:53 +1200 (NZST) From: Dan Langille X-X-Sender: To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: Subject: Re: Releases In-Reply-To: <20010409102526S.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> 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, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > 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. > > That's a nice pat answer, but the problem is that for every value of > "name" we propose, somebody comes forward and says "But that confuses > me." We can't call it BETA, we can't call it STABLE, we can't call it > RC, we can't call it PRERELEASE, because each and every one of those > have had push-back from people who said it would conflict with > previous definitions they hold dear. Given that, chances are > excellent that any other halfway logical names we come up with will > suffer from the same problem. Just because the problem is difficult to solve does not mean it can not be or should not be solved. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message