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Date:      Sat, 13 May 2000 19:59:14 -0400
From:      Eric Ogren <eogren@earthlink.net>
To:        Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
Cc:        Omachonu Ogali <oogali@intranova.net>, Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 5.0 already?
Message-ID:  <20000513195914.B11952@earthlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0005131433150.121-100000@rac5.wam.umd.edu>; from culverk@wam.umd.edu on Sat, May 13, 2000 at 02:35:34PM -0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005130735370.20100-100000@hydrant.intranova.net> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0005131433150.121-100000@rac5.wam.umd.edu>

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On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 02:35:34PM -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote:
> Alright, this is how it works. 3.x-STABLE is STILL the only TRUELY Stable
> tree. the x.0 releases are meant to be releases which iron some stuff out,
> and when the x.1 release comes out, that is when the tree becomes -STABLE. 
> 
 
PLEASE stop spreading this rumour about 4.0 not being ready for true
use. As has been said by both committers and non-committers, 4.0-RELEASE
is nothing at all like 3.0-RELEASE, and it is ready for use.

Also, if you read cvs-all, you would notice that the majority of changes
get MFC'd ONLY to 4-STABLE; although there are certainly still commits to
RELENG_3, it's not the "actively developed" -STABLE branch anymore.

> 
> -Stable progresses along with bugfixes and minor added features from
> -CURRENT, and every so often a -RELEASE is taken as a snapshot from
> -STABLE and given a new version number. -Current takes on the next major
> revision number, but usually doesn't come out for a year to a year and a
> half. 
> 

 Nod. Just because there is a 5.0-CURRENT doesn't mean that there isn't
going to be at least a 4.1-RELEASE and a 4.2-RELEASE.

Eric


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