From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 3 6:15:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EE4F37B417; Fri, 3 May 2002 06:15:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.86.84]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Fri, 3 May 2002 09:15:13 -0400 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 28B45BB29; Fri, 3 May 2002 09:15:02 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Dave Hayes , Brooks Davis Subject: Re: Difference between RELENG_* and RELENG_*_BP Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 09:15:01 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: Michael Sierchio , Terry Lambert , Drew Tomlinson , bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200205030637.g436bab89675@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> In-Reply-To: <200205030637.g436bab89675@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020503131502.28B45BB29@i8k.babbleon.org> 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 On Friday 03 May 2002 02:37 am, Dave Hayes wrote: | | | All this dovetails with something I expressed earlier, with regards to | annotating documentation. Somehow, this community needs to be able to | process a certan class of ideas in a format other than linear mailing | lists. Perhaps some sort of meta-document is needed which describes | how things currently work, and some sort of attachable discussion | needs to go with ideas in that document. Perhaps this is the handbook? It seems to me that the community already has something like this. It is called the handbook, and it explains what "stable" is in FreeBSD (the stable *development* branch) quite clearly. The existance of this thread merely demonstrates that people don't make use the resources that are already out there. Other than by replacing the human race with somne other sort of audience, though, I don't see how we can do anything about *that*. Stable is, in fact, fairly stable. I mean, if you are going to track updates in a day-by-day basis, you can scarcely expect perfect stability anyway; if you want perfect stability, you go with releases and apply security patches. -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org If you smell the smoke you don't need to be told what you've got to do; Yet there's a certain breed, so very in-between, they'd rather take a vote. -- DEVO -- Here To Go To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message