From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 12 23:07:13 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A54C16A417 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:07:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ABA513C48E for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:07:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from c83-253-31-60.bredband.comhem.se ([83.253.31.60]:62876 helo=falcon.midgard.homeip.net) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IgTb6-0004xB-3a for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:07:12 +0200 Received: (qmail 75636 invoked from network); 13 Oct 2007 01:07:09 +0200 Received: from owl.midgard.homeip.net (10.1.5.7) by falcon.midgard.homeip.net with ESMTP; 13 Oct 2007 01:07:09 +0200 Received: (qmail 49913 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Oct 2007 01:07:09 +0200 Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:07:09 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Mel Message-ID: <20071012230709.GA49861@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Mel , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <470FDB17.2080900@intersonic.se> <470FE3F4.50309@FreeBSD.org> <200710130052.00714.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200710130052.00714.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Originating-IP: 83.253.31.60 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1IgTb6-0004xB-3a. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1IgTb6-0004xB-3a 13cd81b0742ae7ae4ed65de420d9499d Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recent branching of CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:07:13 -0000 On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 12:52:00AM +0200, Mel wrote: > 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? RELENG_7 was forked in preperation for the upcoming 7.0 release. That meant -CURRENT could be unfrozen so that new features can be added. (And since the current -CURRENT will eventually lead up to an 8.0 release it is now called 8-CURRENT rather than 7-CURRENT.) Personally I would not consider RELENG_7 to be a real 'stable' branch until after 7.0 has been officially released (or at least not until the RELENG_7_0 release branch has been created and RELENG_7 been unfrozen.) > I.o.w. do we 2 current or 2 > stable branches now? We have many more than 2 stable branches: RELENG_6. RELENG_4, RELENG_3, RELENG_5, RELENG_2_2, etc. Most of them are no longer in active development, but you never know when some committer sees fit to backport something to an older branch. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se