From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 13 14:20:52 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 861A616A41A for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:20:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41DC213C465 for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:20:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C20881CDFC for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 06:20:50 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:20:49 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <470FDB17.2080900@intersonic.se> <200710130207.19104.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <47100FC7.5090002@intersonic.se> In-Reply-To: <47100FC7.5090002@intersonic.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710131620.49636.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> 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 14:20:52 -0000 On Saturday 13 October 2007 02:22:31 Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > 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). Well, 6.0-RELEASE was still on -current. I consider that a good thing, because many people won't go near a new release till it's got at least one -RELEASE and that's when the nasty bugs come out to play ;). Also, as of this writing, x11/nvidia-driver is *still* on compat5x, so those new video interfaces nvidia wanted can't have been tested enough in the real world. It would be nice to have that driver in the ports so people (like me) can test those :). -- Mel