From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 27 13:35:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4853637B718 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:35:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jon@witchspace.com) Received: from siamese.local ([213.105.80.86]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with SMTP id <20010227213457.ZGJJ283.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@siamese.local>; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:34:57 +0000 From: Jonathan Belson Organization: Jon's Place To: Steve O'Hara-Smith Subject: Re: Whats the difference between -STABLE & -RELEASE? Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:38:47 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01022721384701.00371@siamese.local> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 19:29:22 +0000 > Jonathan Belson wrote: > > JB> In a similar vein - when does 4-STABLE become 5-STABLE? Is it when > > Never! 4-STABLE will still be around long after 5-STABLE appears > just as 3-STABLE is still around today (in the sense of getting commits). Slight mis-phrase...I meant when will 5-STABLE appear? > JB> The Powers That Be decide that -CURRENT is stable enough to make > JB> a -STABLE branch? > > 5-STABLE (or RELENG_5 in tag terms) will arrive as you describe, and > at the same time (or thereabouts) -current will become 6.0. Aha, thanks. Next stupid question - what exactly does RELENG stand for? -- C-YA Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message