From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 10 12:26:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA07456 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 12:26:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA07435 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 12:26:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA21658; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:24:31 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA27524; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:24:31 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id VAA05365; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:17:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199606101917.VAA05365@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Re(2): Re(2): The naming of branches To: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:17:14 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Richard Wackerbarth at "Jun 10, 96 06:55:22 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > I my discussion with Rodney Grimmes about the history of the naming > conventions in the cvs tree, I commented that I thought that the name "2_1" > was more appropriate than "2_1_0" for the "head" of the 2.1 branch because > that branch includes 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, etc. This might be true, but we have already once changed our paradigm (between 2.0 and 2.0.5 -- from RELEASE_X_Y to RELENG_X_Y_Z), and changing it too often is IMHO causing more confusion than clarity. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)