From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 27 11:33:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.wanadoo.nl (smtp.wanadoo.nl [194.134.193.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C57837B719 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:33:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steveo@eircom.net) Received: from ams-gw.sohara.org (p355.vcu.wanadoo.nl [194.134.200.247]) by smtp.wanadoo.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA21088; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:33:10 +0100 (MET) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:33:07 +0100 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: Jonathan Belson Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Whats the difference between -STABLE & -RELEASE? Message-Id: <20010227203307.3a2f4c4e.steveo@eircom.net> In-Reply-To: <01022719292200.00371@siamese.local> References: <01022719292200.00371@siamese.local> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.4.60 (GTK+ 1.2.8; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE; i386) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 19:29:22 +0000 Jonathan Belson wrote: JB> In a similar vein - when does 4-STABLE become 5-STABLE? Is it when Never! 4-STABLE will still be around long after 5-STABLE appears just as 3-STABLE is still around today (in the sense of getting commits). JB> The Powers That Be decide that -CURRENT is stable enough to make JB> a -STABLE branch? 5-STABLE (or RELENG_5 in tag terms) will arrive as you describe, and at the same time (or thereabouts) -current will become 6.0. -- WIN-NT - beats paying for it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message