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To: Chris Shenton <cshenton@it.hq.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: 2.2-STABLE 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:00:51 EDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 07:14:59 -0700
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>On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 15:45:14 -0700
>David Greenman <dg@root.com> wrote:
>
>dg>    No, that is not what -stable is. The current head of each major
>dg> branch that releases are cut from (e.g. 2.1.x, 2.2.x, and
>dg> eventually 3.0.x) are refered to as "-stable" after the first
>dg> release is cut. The designation -stable means "more stable than
>dg> the most recent release on this branch". 
>
>So would it be useful to create a CVSup target called "STABLE" or
>"STABLE_2_2" instead of "RELENG_2_2"?

   In this case, the cvsup target is simply the name of the branch. When the
branch is first created, a tag of the form RELENG_X_Y is assigned for the
release engineers so that they can work on the release. It's not "stable" at
that point, so it wouldn't make sense to call it that.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project