Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 16:42:41 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' Message-ID: <p05010405b6d832f1a9e8@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010316122651.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <XFMail.010316122651.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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At 12:26 PM -0800 3/16/01, John Baldwin wrote: >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. A lot of people "should" be doing a lot of things. Maybe these users partially follow the -stable mailing list, but happen to ignore any message with '-beta' in the subject because "they know" they are running the -stable branch. As I say, it is only a few people each release, and it never takes more than a few minutes to calm them down, but it DOES happen every release cycle. > > ~ % 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. I do think the current "beta" period should have some specific name, and one which doesn't imply "release-candidate". I always thought it was odd to be calling it "beta", because (whether we like it or not) "beta" implies something certainly less trustworthy "stable". On the other hand, I still haven't come up with anything more inventive than "4.3-pre-release", or maybe "4.3-pre-rel" (just to be shorter). Maybe something like "4.3-code-freeze"? Or "4.3-precursor"? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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