From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Mar 18 9:21:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88A0137B718 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 09:21:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f2IHLaE99088; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 09:21:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 09:21:35 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Wes Peters Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More BETA evilness Re: BETA induced nervousness Message-ID: <20010318092135.C98788@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010316134113.I29888@fw.wintelcom.net> <200103162300.QAA17472@usr07.primenet.com> <20010316155307.A41507@citusc17.usc.edu> <3AB3779E.6A448E9@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AB3779E.6A448E9@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 07:41:34AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 07:41:34AM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > c) "BETA" is not really "STABLE". During the BETA phase, we often > introduce short-term instability in the process of adding some > functionality for the next release. This is a necessary and > desirable phase of development, and lasts for a short period of > time. "BETA" _is_ really "STABLE". short-term instability can be introduced at *ANY* time when doing MFCs. It just happens to occur more often near release time. Some have proclaimed they will start doing monthly MFC parties. We'll see if that happens, but the same "short-term instability" will then occur at different times. Maybe we shouldn't be calling it -STABLE at all. Maybe it should be: 4.3-BETA -> 4.3-RELEASE -> 4.4-BETA -> 4.4-RELEASE -> etc... then if our CVSupin' users won't bother to understand what using the RELENG_4 branch means. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message