Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 19:46:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: drosih@rpi.edu (Garance A Drosihn) Cc: jkh@osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard), bright@wintelcom.net, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' Message-ID: <200103161946.MAA16289@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <p05010404b6d806171fd8@[128.113.24.47]> from "Garance A Drosihn" at Mar 16, 2001 01:14:37 PM
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> 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
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