From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 9 18: 5:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kline-station.ckdhr.com (kline-station.ckdhr.com [209.58.172.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4EF3A37B423 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 18:05:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ckd@ckdhr.com) Received: (qmail 14712 invoked by uid 139); 10 Apr 2001 00:55:02 -0000 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Releases References: <20010409102526S.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010409105223C.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <014a01c0c12e$e5e76f20$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <5.0.2.1.0.20010409101533.00ace930@pop.schulte.org> <5.0.2.1.0.20010409111054.00b18008@pop.schulte.org> <200104091911.MAA32457@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <3AD20ECC.5A895124@quake.com.au> <20010409193544.A25126@acc.umu.se> <200104091816.UAA03404@flip.tenbit.pl> <15058.15825.422218.278218@guru.mired.org> X-Face: I8Alb*-ZdjN\/8k_QR,^l^m6GQB'S-B:}DVP].1HOw#tx:TX$k;Wl;4zqjWR|-jheM#? &beRf(!|0b0m=M~=%.Am>"QEY.(#Ys.%"s?z,hmwp&y0%p>9+T X-Attribution: ckd Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Christopher K Davis Date: 09 Apr 2001 20:55:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: Mike Meyer's message of "Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:55:13 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 26 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.44/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike W Meyer writes: > I know, you're kidding. But if some group of people who have to deal > with the questions propose a complete new naming scheme designed to > deal with all the problems we see the current ones causing (though the > only serious one is -BETA/-RC), is there any chance of it being > adopted? How about just a new name for either -BETA (the major source > of the problem), or simply calling -STABLE -ALPHA, thus making -BETA & > -RC seem desirable? Off the top of my head: -STABLE, -FROZEN, -FROZENRC, -RELEASE. FROZEN has much better connotations than BETA (which should hopefully deconfuse people a bit), and continuing it into the release candidate phase gives us continuity there. The use of "FROZEN" also emphasizes the most critical change that happens in the currently-named BETA/RC phases, namely the freezing of changes other than critical ones. (I suppose it could be -SLUSHY and -FROZEN for -BETA and -RC if we wanted to be slightly cuter.) -- Christopher Davis * * Put location information in your DNS! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message