From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 2 23:35:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA20119 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 23:35:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA20110 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 23:35:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA19313; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 23:34:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199803030734.XAA19313@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Ted Spradley , "John S. Dyson" , karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se (Mikael Karpberg), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Mar 1998 08:08:28 +0100." <13993.888908908@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 23:34:26 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, if you do rename 3.0 to 2.3 I bet that their will be lots of comments --- till then I don't think people really care . I think is a good idea to rename a 3.0 snapshot to 2.3 and stabilize cause 3.0 has such a bad reputation actually it is more of symbol for fear 8) Amancio > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message