From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 05:41:15 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40EDB16A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 05:41:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sarajevo.pacific.net.sg (sarajevo.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1924843D3F for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 05:41:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: (qmail 25294 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2005 05:41:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO maxwell6.pacific.net.sg) (203.120.90.212) by sarajevo with SMTP; 29 Mar 2005 05:41:10 -0000 Received: from [192.168.0.107] ([210.24.122.103]) by maxwell6.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id <20050329054110.FNS1233.maxwell6.pacific.net.sg@[192.168.0.107]>; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:41:10 +0800 Message-ID: <4248EA01.6030902@pacific.net.sg> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:39:13 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky Organization: oceanare pte ltd User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050224) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andre Guibert de Bruet References: <3aaaa3a0503271958205ca8e1@mail.gmail.com> <20050327230550.J39188@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> <4248BBB8.3090405@pacific.net.sg> <20050328231825.K52981@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> In-Reply-To: <20050328231825.K52981@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Chris cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd naming of releases X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 05:41:15 -0000 Hi, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Erich Dollansky wrote: > >> It would be much easier for many users to understand terms like >> "alpha", "beta" or "production" as others to it. There is not other >> meaning in "release" as it is released but for what purpose? > > > Release announcements usually include the expectations for the release. > Would you run anything that said "Preview" on a production server? > It is not what you do with it but how easy it is to see what it is ment for. > > I find that the terms "alpha", "beta" and "production" do not quite fit > the FreeBSD development paradigm. (Is RELENG_5 beta or production?) > It is pretty simple. There will be a 5.4 alpha, 5.4 beta and finally a 5.4 final if the code gets stable enough. There would be the same for all other versions. > PS: I'm willing to elaborate off-list (current@ probably isn't the best > forum for this discussion). > Let also the others have some fun. We could switch the list, but to which one? Erich