From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 16 11:56:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6193037B718; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:56:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA21430; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:41:13 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAaraaOP; Fri Mar 16 12:40:58 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA16289; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:46:53 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200103161946.MAA16289@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' To: drosih@rpi.edu (Garance A Drosihn) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 19:46:48 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jkh@osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard), bright@wintelcom.net, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Garance A Drosihn" at Mar 16, 2001 01:14:37 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've only been following freebsd for two or three years, but every > single time freebsd starts ramping up for a release I see some newbie > freebsd users come on "lily" (our equivalent of IRC) and say > "Hey, I meant to get N.x-stable, but I got N.x+1-beta!! > What did I do wrong? How do I back out?" > > It only takes a few minutes to calm them down and say "that's > just the way freebsd does things, don't worry about it", but it > does happen (with different people, of course) for every release > that I've seen. > > How about calling it: > 4.3-pre-release > > When we then create a new branch after the release (the "super > stable, critical bug-fixes only" branch), we can call that > 4.3-post-release -stable -release -stable-rc (stable, release candidate) The people with the problems may wonder about the "-rc" suffix, but with "stable" there as a prefix, they will probably ignore it, after wondering for a second whether it's the initials of the last person to commit changes or something... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message