From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 17 2:29: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C10F137B5F4; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 02:29:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id CAA69130; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 02:29:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 02:29:00 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: Brad Knowles , Warner Losh , Glen Gross , Ruslan Ermilov , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > I've long wondered if there's not a better word than RELEASE to append > to these .0 versions. Perhaps 4.0-BETA or something equally scary > will keep the enterprise users away from a .0 version. Yeah, it'd also keep everyone else away from it too, and we'd have the same problems whenever it was that the BETA label was finally dropped, and people would complain because a product which was just out of beta had bugs, and should have stayed in beta longer :) Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message