Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 13:14:37 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, bright@wintelcom.net Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' Message-ID: <p05010404b6d806171fd8@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20010315194029C.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> References: <20010315180837.N29888@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010315194029C.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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At 7:40 PM -0800 3/15/01, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>Hmm. I've yet to get *any* mail about BETA scaring people, and we've
>been doing them for literally years at this point. I suspect you're
>overreacting somewhat to Saverio Perugini's recent mail in -stable,
>but I'll nonetheless entertain any suggestions on what I could call
>the "pre-RC" releases without confusing them with snapshots, which
>occur every day anyway, or the actual release.
I've only been following freebsd for two or three years, but every
single time freebsd starts ramping up for a release I see some newbie
freebsd users come on "lily" (our equivalent of IRC) and say
"Hey, I meant to get N.x-stable, but I got N.x+1-beta!!
What did I do wrong? How do I back out?"
It only takes a few minutes to calm them down and say "that's
just the way freebsd does things, don't worry about it", but it
does happen (with different people, of course) for every release
that I've seen.
How about calling it:
4.3-pre-release
When we then create a new branch after the release (the "super
stable, critical bug-fixes only" branch), we can call that
4.3-post-release
I'm not really all that fond of "4.3-post-release", but I thought
I'd also bring up the question of what the easily-identifiable
name for that branch should be, as long as we're talking about
names.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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