From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 1 12:50:31 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA27423 for current-outgoing; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 12:50:31 -0800 Received: from alpha.netcraft.co.uk (alpha.netcraft.co.uk [194.72.238.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA27417 ; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 12:50:25 -0800 Received: (from paul@localhost) by alpha.netcraft.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.9) id UAA00447; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 20:47:01 GMT From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199511012047.UAA00447@alpha.netcraft.co.uk> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 update To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 20:46:56 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, vince@apollo.COSC.GOV, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, jc@irbs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, FAQ@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199511011945.LAA23144@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Nov 1, 95 11:45:05 am Reply-to: paul@netcraft.co.uk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1018 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In reply to Julian Elischer who said > > NO? > I think he has it right eventhough he says it a bit oddly.. > > -current always moves forwards. > every so often a 'branch' is made that is eventually made into a release.. > What I'm not sure of myself, is whether -stable > derives from -current, or from a previous (unstable?) release. > (because we are effectively doing both at the moment) I think it would probably make sense for stable to continue as a 2.1 lineage until such time as current is felt stable enough to become a release candidate. If current is in development a long time there may be a 2.1.1 release or even a 2.1.2 Eventually though current will reach a point where it becomes a release candidate and a new 2.2 stable branch taken off it. I guess the 2.1 lineage would die at that point due to lack of resources. Just speculation on my part.... -- Paul Richards, Netcraft Ltd. Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1225 447500 (work)