From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 8 10:58:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id D93641578C; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 10:54:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0AFC1CD623; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 10:54:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 10:54:09 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Morten Seeberg Cc: Steve O'Hara-Smith , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is -STABLE really stable? In-Reply-To: <036901bf40b4$5573b300$1600a8c0@SOS> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Morten Seeberg wrote: > Revising the release times for 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 I know realise that I= =B4ve > just misunderstood the way -STABLE works :) And that I should just start > using RELEASE on my production machines, instead of -STABLE, which I thou= ght > was "better"/"more stable" than RELEASE. Probably a 'safer' policy if you don't want to worry about whether or not some committer has just temporarily broken -stable (bad committer! No biscuit!) is to wait for a -release, subscribe to this list and watch what problems people find with it, WAIT say two or three weeks, and then install -stable as of that date. Unfortunately a lot of people only jump on -release once it's already out the door instead of properly helping to beta-test, which means that the bug reports only come in after it's too late. These get immediately fixed in -stable, of course, which means that there's often a substantial improvement over the first few weeks after a release. Having said that, -stable doesn't change very much over time anyway (by definition), so whichever day you pick isn't likely to make much difference (in theory, only minor changes are made to -stable, so only minor things should break :-). Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message