From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 16 12:27:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7327937B718 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:27:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2GKQeG62063; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:26:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010316120906.D29888@fw.wintelcom.net> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:26:51 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, Jordan Hubbard , Garance A Drosihn , Terry Lambert Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16-Mar-01 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Yes, the real problem with this is '2' (newvers.sh), there's nothing > wrong with using 'BETA' in the names on the ftp site. People who follow -stable should be reading -stable. Thus, they will read the heads up about the release schedule, and will not be surprised. If having -BETA on the ftp site for people who aren't necessarly reading -stable is ok, then it should be more than ok for people who are supposedly reading the list and know what is going on. > So either quit doing '2' or use a variant of > Terry's suggestion '-stable-rc' > > ~ % uname -srm > FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE-RC i386 Except that it's not a real release candidate. Which is why we don't just use -RC the whole time. -RC means that we would actually feel confident releasing that exact source on the CD's as foo-RELEASE. This is not true for foo-BETA, as it is a time for people to test stuff out and spot things that need to be fixed. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message