From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 27 11:39: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailb.telia.com (mailb.telia.com [194.22.194.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A9CC37B71A for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:38:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailb.telia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA27992 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:38:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h24n3fls21o913.telia.com [213.65.173.24]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA20701 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:38:50 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 6975 invoked by uid 1001); 27 Feb 2001 19:39:02 -0000 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:39:02 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Whats the difference between -STABLE & -RELEASE? Message-ID: <20010227203902.A6959@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <01022719292200.00371@siamese.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01022719292200.00371@siamese.local>; from jon@witchspace.com on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 07:29:22PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 07:29:22PM +0000, Jonathan Belson wrote: > "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? > 4-STABLE will never become 5-STABLE. It will stay 4-STABLE for the rest of time. (Just like 3-STABLE and 2.2-STABLE still exists.) I guess you meant to ask when 5-CURRENT will branch into 5-STABLE. The answer to this is, as you guessed, when The Powers That Be decide that it is stable enough. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message