Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:41:28 -0500 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ? Message-ID: <20120614144128.GB26121@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <4FD9A0E2.9010101@my.gd> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206111537310.19012@kozubik.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206140649530.72545@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <CADLo83--6KyBptR2a4GgEy_CEW3trKxHT1k9ZzMu8P44cH5O2A@mail.gmail.com> <4FD9A0E2.9010101@my.gd>
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:29:22AM +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > Whoever said STABLE is no good for production ? > > I used to make us stick to 8.2-RELEASE here at work, but some bugfixes > are just too important to skip (we're running firewalls and had a > problem with a CARP bug). In theory we try our best to keep -STABLE, well, stable in behavior and not just the API, but in practice any given snapshot of -stable may or may not have uncaught regressions in it. I reiterate, the major difference between -stable and -release is a more thorough QA process for the latter :-) mcl
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