From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Feb 2 0: 0:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E49B37B402 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 00:00:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g12805434363; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 00:00:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 00:00:05 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200202020800.g12805434363@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Jay Edwards Subject: Re:docs/34547: [patch] edits of FAQ Introduction Reply-To: Jay Edwards Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/34547; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jay Edwards To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re:docs/34547: [patch] edits of FAQ Introduction Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 01:56:47 -0600 (Oops. Forgot the patch). Index: book.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.400 diff -c -r1.400 book.sgml *** book.sgml 2002/02/02 00:43:51 1.400 --- book.sgml 2002/02/02 06:15:14 *************** *** 225,244 **** ! Anyone who has an improvement and/or bug fix is free to submit their code and have it added to the source tree (subject to one or two obvious provisions). ! For those of our readers whose first language is not ! English, it may be worth pointing out that the word ! free is being used in two ways here, one meaning ! at no cost, the other meaning you can do ! whatever you like. Apart from one or two things you ! cannot do with the FreeBSD code, for ! example pretending you wrote it, you really can do whatever you ! like with it. --- 225,242 ---- ! Anyone who has an improvement or bug fix is free to submit their code and have it added to the source tree (subject to one or two obvious provisions). ! It is worth pointing out that the word free ! is being used in two ways here, one meaning at no cost ! , the other meaning you can do whatever you like ! Apart from one or two things you cannot ! do with the FreeBSD code (for example, pretending that you ! wrote it, you can do whatever you like with it. *************** *** 254,270 **** released in &rel.current.date;. This is also the latest RELEASE version. ! Briefly explained, -STABLE is aimed ! at the ISP or other corporate user who wants stability and a ! low change count over the wizzy new features of the latest ! -CURRENT snapshot. Releases can come ! from either branch, but you should only use ! -CURRENT if you are sure that you are ! prepared for its increased volatility (relative to ! -STABLE, that is). ! Releases are only made every ! few months. While many people stay more up-to-date with the FreeBSD sources (see the questions on FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-STABLE) than that, doing so --- 252,267 ---- released in &rel.current.date;. This is also the latest RELEASE version. ! Briefly, -STABLE is aimed at the user ! who wants stability and a minimal number of changes more than ! they want the new (and possibly unstable) features of the ! latest -CURRENT snapshot. Releases can ! come from either branch, but -CURRENT ! should only be used if you are prepared for its increased ! volatility (relative to -STABLE, that is. ! Releases are made every few ! months. While many people stay more up-to-date with the FreeBSD sources (see the questions on FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-STABLE) than that, doing so *************** *** 299,313 **** analyze any problems and only report them if they are deemed to be mistakes rather than glitches. Questions such as make world produces some error about ! groups on the -CURRENT mailing list are sometimes ! treated with contempt. Every day, snapshot releases are made based on the current state of the ! -CURRENT and -STABLE branches. Nowadays, distributions of the ! occasional snapshot are now being made available. The goals ! behind each snapshot release are: --- 296,310 ---- analyze any problems and only report them if they are deemed to be mistakes rather than glitches. Questions such as make world produces some error about ! groups on the -CURRENT mailing list may be treated ! with contempt. Every day, snapshot releases are made based on the current state of the ! -CURRENT and -STABLE branches. Distributions of the ! occasional snapshot are available. The goals behind each ! snapshot release are: *************** *** 317,338 **** To give people who would like to run -CURRENT or ! -STABLE but who do not have the time and/or bandwidth to follow it on a day-to-day basis an easy way of ! bootstrapping it onto their systems. ! To preserve a fixed reference point for the code in ! question, just in case we break something really badly ! later. (Although CVS normally prevents anything horrible ! like this happening :) ! To ensure that any new features in need of testing ! have the greatest possible number of potential ! testers. --- 314,334 ---- To give people who would like to run -CURRENT or ! -STABLE but who do not have the time or bandwidth to follow it on a day-to-day basis an easy way of ! installing it on their systems. ! To maintain a fixed reference point for the branch in ! question, just in case something gets very badly broken ! later. (Although CVS normally prevents anything this ! horrible from happening :) ! To ensure that all new features and fixes have the ! greatest possible number of potential testers. *************** *** 350,357 **** 3-STABLE snapshots are not being produced at the time of this writing (May 2000). ! Snapshots are generated, on the average, once a day for ! all actively developed branches. --- 346,353 ---- 3-STABLE snapshots are not being produced at the time of this writing (May 2000). ! Snapshots are usually generated daily for all ! actively developed branches. *************** *** 431,453 **** ! As a general principle, the FreeBSD core team only release ! a new version of FreeBSD when they believe that there are ! sufficient new features and/or bug fixes to justify one, and ! are satisfied that these new developments have been tested ! sufficiently to avoid compromising the stability of the ! release. Release dates are generally announced well in ! advance, so that the people working on the system know ! when their projects need to be finished and tested. ! Many users regard this caution as one of the best ! things about FreeBSD, although ! waiting for all the latest goodies to reach -STABLE ! can be a little frustrating. ! Releases are made about every 4 months on average. For people who need or want a little more excitement, ! binary snapshots are made every day as discussed above. --- 427,448 ---- ! As a rule, the FreeBSD core team only releases a new ! version of FreeBSD when there are a sufficient number of new ! features and bug fixes to justify it, and, more imprtantly, ! when they are satisfied that these changes have been ! thoroughly tested and do not compromise the stability of ! the release. Release dates are generally announced well in ! advance so the developers know when their projects need to ! to be finished and tested. Many users regard this caution ! as one of the best things about FreeBSD, though waiting for ! all the latest goodies to reach -STABLE can be a little ! frustrating. ! Releases are made about every 4 months. For people who need or want a little more excitement, ! binary snapshots are made daily as discussed above. *************** *** 501,516 **** 4.X ! snapshots are usually made once a day. 5.0 Snapshot releases are made once a day for the ! -CURRENT branch, these being ! of service purely to bleeding-edge testers and ! developers. --- 496,510 ---- 4.X ! snapshots are usually made daily. 5.0 Snapshot releases are made every day for the ! -CURRENT branch, these are ! only useful to bleeding-edge testers and developers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message