From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 16 13:28:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E48437B71A; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 13:28:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA26162; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 15:28:29 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 15:28:28 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Jordan Hubbard , , , , Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' In-Reply-To: <20010316130917.A99286@mollari.cthul.hu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:41:24AM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > Ok, so we have reports of confusion on the mailing lists, usenet and > > > IRC. Jordan, where can I pick up a set those blinders you have on? > > > > Chill, Albert. I think we've already established that a) It's the > > newvers.sh "BETAness" that's really freaking people out and b) That > > you've yet to supply any practical name alternative, you're just > > whining about it at this point. > > I suggested "-PRERELEASE" as a more friendly alternative. I suppose we could just keep it X.Y-STABLE right up until newvers.sh is changed and the X.(Y+1)-RELEASE tag is laid down immediately afterwards... Obviously developers and others tracking -STABLE will already know when we're in a "BETA" stage (since they're on the appropriate mailing lists, or should be), others don't really need to be "bothered" with that fact. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message