Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 21:57:08 +0000 From: Kiril Mitev <kiril@idea.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Confusion Message-ID: <99031722052900.11541@loki.idea.co.uk> References: <199903172155.QAA02939@dna.tsolab.org>
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On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Dan Ts'o furiously typed away: > > I think it was always abundantly clear that the 3.0 release was never > considered truly suitable for production deployment and was not a part of > the "stable" branch. You may have chosen to use 3.0 because of its SMP > support, but it was always considered that staying with 2.2.X for now was > the wisest choice for production work. I beg to disagree. IIRC, the hype (sorry, true) was that 4.0 is the current branch & 3.* is the stable branch.... IF one were to split hairs, one could say that when 3.0 existed, is was -current, not -stable, but I dare say that people receiving their information from sources other than the OS sources (1) would consider 3.* to be THE stable branch, and since 3.0 happens to match 3.*, it would be interpreted as a -stable version. Furthermore, a CD release would (or at least SHOULD :-) be interpreted as a -stable release...... Keith's points are absolutely valid. > This may have changed somewhat with 3.1 but personally I think I > will wait til 3.2 or so before I move off the 2.2.X branch. Good for you. Now tell us why, please ? > I'm sorry to hear that you feel a little miffed about the release > schedule, but frankly, all things considered I don't think I would want > them to do it any other way. I think the current release policies are > the best balance between the new and the stable. That's a separate issue altogether. I saw that 3.2 is promised mid-June and I would say that this is good [TM]. ** Just Another F-BSD Lamer ** -- Kiril To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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