From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 27 11:25:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (mta06-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 048D937B75D; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:25:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jon@witchspace.com) Received: from siamese.local ([213.105.80.86]) by mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with SMTP id <20010227192531.HQYQ285.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@siamese.local>; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 19:25:31 +0000 From: Jonathan Belson Organization: Jon's Place To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Whats the difference between -STABLE & -RELEASE? Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 19:29:22 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01022719292200.00371@siamese.local> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Bruce A. Mah" wrote: > To rephrase this: -STABLE is one of the development tracks (for > example, 4-STABLE). The different -RELEASEs are points along a stable > development track after which some testing and quality assurance has > been done. > > The term "4.2-STABLE" refers to the state of FreeBSD 4-STABLE at some > time after 4.2-RELEASE, but it doesn't necessary pinpoint any > particular snapshot. In a similar vein - when does 4-STABLE become 5-STABLE? Is it when The Powers That Be decide that -CURRENT is stable enough to make a -STABLE branch? -- C-YA Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message