From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 14 14:41:29 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (unknown [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45B41106566B for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:41:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (pancho.soaustin.net [76.74.250.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23E2E8FC08 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:41:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 7BA125620B; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:41:28 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:41:28 -0500 From: Mark Linimon To: Damien Fleuriot Message-ID: <20120614144128.GB26121@lonesome.com> References: <4FD9A0E2.9010101@my.gd> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FD9A0E2.9010101@my.gd> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:08:46 +0000 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:41:29 -0000 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