From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 1 9:51:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from argon.blackdawn.com (deepspace9.dcds.edu [207.231.151.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D78437BD03 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 09:51:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@argon.blackdawn.com) Received: by argon.blackdawn.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 381461A27; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 12:49:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 12:49:58 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: "Forrest W. Christian" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When does 4.x become -STABLE? Message-ID: <20000301124958.B426@argon.blackdawn.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from forrestc@iMach.com on Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 12:31:05AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 12:31:05AM -0700, Forrest W. Christian wrote: > With the advent of 4.0-RELEASE, does this mean that 4.0-STABLE will soon > follow along with 5.0-CURRENT? No. 4.x-STABLE will probably come around 4.2-RELEASE. It may come some time after 4.1-RELEASE but not before. Of course, this is just a prediction. > Or better put, how will the existance of 4.0-RELEASE affect development > overall in the FreeBSD world? It will send out the latest code into the world, hoping that the reports on its bugginess (or lack thereof) will inform developers on whether it's time to move to 4.x-STABLE. -- Will Andrews GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message