From owner-freebsd-audit Wed Nov 27 0:55:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA2DC37B401 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 00:55:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from axl.seasidesoftware.co.za (axl.seasidesoftware.co.za [196.31.7.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 470A943EA9 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 00:55:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@starjuice.net) Received: from sheldonh by axl.seasidesoftware.co.za with local (Exim 4.10) id 18GxyM-000BWW-00; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:55:06 +0200 Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:55:06 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: audit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ABIs and 5.x branch: freeze kernel module ABI at 5.0 or 5.1? Message-ID: <20021127085506.GC43828@starjuice.net> References: <2079.1038351585@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2079.1038351585@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On (2002/11/26 23:59), Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > It's very simple in my mind: we only freeze ABI's on -stable branches > (and we actually even violated that for 4-stable I belive). > > Whenever we branch a new -stable from -current, that's when we freeze > the ABI's for that branch. I agree, but I think that this attitude warrants a different name for pre-branch releases. Things have changed to the point where a large number of users don't understand the implications of point-naught releases. I'd go so far as to say that 5.0-RELEASE should be renamed to 5.0-PREVIEW and that 5.1-RELEASE should be renamed to 5.0-RELEASE. I really didn't want to send this message because I know people will fixate on the name to use, instead of the issue that pre-branch releases should be named differently from post-branch releases. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message