From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 11 19:53:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA18776 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 19:53:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ajax.wcs.uq.edu.au (ajax.wcs.uq.edu.au [130.102.222.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA18769 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 19:53:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from garyr@localhost) by ajax.wcs.uq.edu.au (8.6.8/8.6.6) id MAA12435; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 12:52:26 +1000 From: Gary Roberts Message-Id: <199606120252.MAA12435@ajax.wcs.uq.edu.au> Subject: Re: Re(2): Status of -stable To: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 12:52:25 +1000 (EST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Richard Wackerbarth" at Jun 11, 96 09:30:54 pm Organisation: The University of Queensland Phone: +617 3844 0400 Reply-To: garyr@wcs.uq.edu.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Richard Wackerbarth writes: > > Yep, the 2.1.5 -- 2.1.6 -- 2.1.7 ... cycle just continues until the > > developers are ready to turn -current into 2.2.0. As soon as 2.2.0-RELEASE > > is out, 2.1.X vanishes and bug-fixes for 2.2.0 start flowing. On the .... > Here I think you are premature in abandoning the 2.1 strain. We should keep it > until the 2.2 strain has had enough bugs fixed that we are comfortable > considering it to be throughly shaken out. Quite correct, of course. Instead of "2.1.X vanishes" please substitute the words "work on 2.1.X drastically reduces or stops completely" to get a better impression of my meaning. With advance warning of the impending 2.2.0-RELEASE, I envisage that the maintainers of 2.1.X would put out a final cleanup version which would be the "production" system until 2.2.0 had proved itself. This final version could be available for as long as required perhaps at least until 2.2.1 or 2.2.2 was out and was perceived to be of sufficient stability and quality to be a viable replacement. Cheers, -- Gary Roberts (garyr@wcs.uq.edu.au) (Ph +617 3844 0400 Fax +617 3844 0444) 4th Floor, South Bank House, 234 Grey St, South Bank QLD 4101 Australia.