From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 13 00:22:38 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 55FE016A41B for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:22:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peo@intersonic.se) Received: from neonpark.inter-sonic.com (neonpark.inter-sonic.com [212.247.8.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 307CD13C4B5 for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:22:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peo@intersonic.se) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at inter-sonic.com Message-ID: <47100FC7.5090002@intersonic.se> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:22:31 +0200 From: Per olof Ljungmark Organization: Intersonic AB User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071009) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mel References: <470FDB17.2080900@intersonic.se> <200710130052.00714.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <47100021.2020500@FreeBSD.org> <200710130207.19104.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <200710130207.19104.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: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:22:38 -0000 Mel wrote: > On Saturday 13 October 2007 01:15:45 Kris Kennaway wrote: >> 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. > > That is actually what I'm worried about. It means drivers are less likely to > be MFC'd to RELENG_6 from 7.0-RELEASE onwards - I was hoping that wouldn't > happen till 7.1. It's called progress. This is normal. If you need a driver that is happening in 7- only, then upgrade to 7. RELENG_6 will turn into a "supported fix branch" or whatever the name is and RELENG_7 is where the action takes place, just like it has been going on for quite some time (please correct me if I'm wrong).