From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 2 23:19:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA18370 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 23:19:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA18362 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 23:19:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA13995; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:08:29 +0100 (CET) To: Ted Spradley cc: "John S. Dyson" , karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se (Mikael Karpberg), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 02 Mar 1998 17:46:55 CST." Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 08:08:28 +0100 Message-ID: <13993.888908908@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Ted Spradley writes: >> You *definitely* make very valid points, but 2.2.X is becoming too difficul >t >> to maintain, and people are too tempted to use -current (with negative >> consequences.) This is a difficult judgement call, and I don't think the >> decisions have been made final. > >No one has commented on Terry Lambert's suggestion to change the name from 3. >0 >to 2.3. I suppose that's just meaningless marketing silliness, especially >when your product is free, but I expected to see some comment. The fact that there has been none comment on Terrys suggestion usually means that people didn't even spend so much time to consider it that they could prevent their Pavlovian reflex from pressing D at the sight of Terrys name. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message