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Date:      Sun, 09 Jan 2000 14:05:58 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>
Cc:        Mike Harding <mvh@ix.netcom.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: When does the 4.x branch go stable? 
Message-ID:  <52396.947455558@zippy.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Jan 2000 13:56:28 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001091355010.39075-100000@hub.freebsd.org> 

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> Probably not until at least 4.1 depending on how stable it actually is. It
> would be a great disservice to immediately label 4.0 stable the day after
> release since it's so much new technology and there are bound to be
> problems for the first little while.

If but only life was that simple. :)

The code has to branch off the mainline sooner rather than later or
quite a bit of re-engineering work planned for -current will stack up
behind 4.1-RELEASE.  I also predict that unless we put such road
blocks in people's way, and I think that would be a bad thing,
-current is about to become a lot more interesting again over the next
90 days.

That means that for 4.1 to ever have a chance *be* stable, it has to
get off the express -current track.  People may get confused over the
resulting nomenclature, I do understand that, but that's a minor
downside by comparison.

- Jordan


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