From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 12 23:15:48 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 25AD816A419 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:15:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 178F813C457; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:15:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <47100021.2020500@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:15:45 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mel References: <470FDB17.2080900@intersonic.se> <470FE3F4.50309@FreeBSD.org> <200710130052.00714.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <200710130052.00714.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 23:15:48 -0000 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? I.o.w. do we 2 current or 2 > stable branches now? Those are just names, don't worry too much about it. RELENG_7 will be the start of a new -STABLE branch once it is released. Kris