From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 1 10:29:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15BEA37B401 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:29:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-150.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C20143F3F for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:29:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3890666CFA; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:29:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 211B012AA; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:29:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:29:06 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Evan Dower Message-ID: <20030401182906.GD4151@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="P+33d92oIH25kiaB" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_5_0 v. HEAD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 18:29:07 -0000 --P+33d92oIH25kiaB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:42:25AM -0800, Evan Dower wrote: > I've been tracking RELENG_5_0 pretty much since it existed, but I am=20 > wondering now if it would be better to track -CURRENT via HEAD instead.= =20 > After all, with the semi-frozen status of HEAD, all knew commits should b= e=20 > fairly conservative and the _general_ _ trend_ should at least be toward = a=20 > more stable product. I wonder if HEAD is actually a more stable product= =20 > than RELENG_5_0. Sometimes is, sometimes isn't. You have to be fairly careful to upgrade at the right time based on commit activity and mailing list traffic. > Certainly it would be for anyone using the nvidia-driver,=20 > since it is unsupported on RELENG_5_0. What are your thoughts? It's just as unsupported on HEAD. Kris --P+33d92oIH25kiaB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+idpxWry0BWjoQKURAokYAKDk6ysVFAHFOTbQhiEw6aT22PdaOgCdHDTG ZOduStEsM9lokznqy2Loemk= =aPIT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --P+33d92oIH25kiaB--