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Subject: Re: Recent branching of CURRENT
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On Friday 12 October 2007 23:15:32 Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Just out of curiosity, why did I fail to notice the branching of
> > RELENG_7 and 8-CURRENT? I'm subscribed to -stable, -current and
> > -announce.
>
> Because it's an administrative change that is just a normal part of the
> release engineering process.  i.e. 7.0 is not released etc.

And RELENG_7 is not considered the 'stable' branch yet, but 8-CURRENT is just 
forked for development of entirely new features? I.o.w. do we 2 current or 2 
stable branches now?

-- 
Mel