From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 19 19:01:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA21942 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:01:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cassiopeia.caprica.com ([207.137.48.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA21933 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:01:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from exit.com by cassiopeia.caprica.com (8.6.10/95022701) id QAA05835; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 16:08:01 -0800 Received: (from frank@localhost) by exit.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id SAA11971; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 18:41:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Frank Mayhar Message-Id: <199810200141.SAA11971@exit.com> Subject: Re: -stable to 3.0 transition To: wrsomsky@halcyon.com (William R. Somsky) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 18:41:18 -0700 (PDT) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, am@amsoft.ru, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19981019182252.A1153@halcyon.com> from "William R. Somsky" at "Oct 19, 98 06:22:52 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] 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 William R. Somsky wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 01:50:25AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Someone lost in the mists of time spoke thusly: > > > Btw, will 3.0-stable branch be forked? > > After some of the dust finishes settling and 3.0 is more worthy of the > > title. Maybe January. > Would it be useful to establish the "RELENG_3_0" cvs tag now, even if > it doesn't actually diverge from "." until January? Or is there > something that would prevent this from doing/being the "right thing"? Speaking as one who often finds himself in the unenviable position of trying to reconcile multiple CVS branches, the later you branch, the easier your job is. Best is to never branch at all, and I strive to maintain that state. Maintaining multiple CVS branches is a real pain, and I can certainly understand why Jordan is delaying as long as possible. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message