From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 27 13:43:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.pace.edu (ntutil.pace.edu [205.232.111.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4682137B71C for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:43:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from js43064n@stmail.pace.edu) Received: from stmail.pace.edu (205.232.111.7:1508) by smtp.pace.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <0.A8751C0C@smtp.pace.edu>; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:44:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:43:07 -0500 Message-Id: <200102271643.AA1900675532@stmail.pace.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "Jonathan Slivko" Reply-To: To: Steve O'Hara-Smith , Jonathan Belson Cc: Subject: Re: Whats the difference between -STABLE & -RELEASE? X-Mailer: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John, I'm just taking a shot in the dark here by saying RELENG means Release Engine? or something like that? -- Jonathan M. Slivko ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Jonathan Belson Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:38:47 +0000 >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 > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jonathan M. Slivko Global IRC Operator, AsylumNet IRC Network Pager: (917) 388-5304 (24/7) Phone: (212) 663-1109 (6PM-12PM EST) "Microsoft, is that some kind of toilet paper?" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message