From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 2 22: 3:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from laptop.tenebras.com (laptop.tenebras.com [66.92.188.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7CF237B400 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 22:03:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 20580 invoked from network); 3 May 2002 05:03:24 -0000 Received: from sapphire.tenebras.com (HELO tenebras.com) (66.92.188.241) by 0 with SMTP; 3 May 2002 05:03:24 -0000 Message-ID: <3CD21A1C.1040304@tenebras.com> Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 22:03:24 -0700 From: Michael Sierchio Reply-To: kudzu@tenebras.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020427 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brooks Davis Cc: Dave Hayes , Terry Lambert , Drew Tomlinson , bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Difference between RELENG_* and RELENG_*_BP References: <200205030344.g433i7b88531@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> <20020502212358.A28915@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brooks Davis wrote: >>I'm sure you folks hashed this all over before, but really...calling a >>branch "-stable" when it really isn't is not good semantic practice >>IMNSHO. > > > DO NOT EVEN CONSIDER STARTING THIS THREAD!!! It's been hashed over more > times then are worth counting on various mailing lists which are fully > archived. If you really care go read the flamewars there, don't start > them on the list. The signal to noise ratio is bad enough without this > junk. That's right, let's not make any mention of the pink hippo in the living room. The nomenclature is fup duck. It should be changed. Just because there's a historical explanation for abusing the language doesn't mean it should be perpetuated. Bad semantics could definitely be considered noise. -STABLE is unstable (or potentially so). -SECURITY (which isn't really a tag) is what most people think of when they lex the term "stable." Squelching the insightful newcomer is the sign of disease. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message