From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 19 19:27:14 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5624B37B401 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:27:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from dc-mx11.cluster1.charter.net (dc-mx11.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DF5243F3F for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:27:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from glennpj@charter.net) Received: from [24.158.214.251] (HELO gforce.johnson.home) by dc-mx11.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP id 27380639; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 22:27:06 -0500 Received: from gforce.johnson.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gforce.johnson.home (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0K3R054054339; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 21:27:02 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from glenn@gforce.johnson.home) Received: (from glenn@localhost) by gforce.johnson.home (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0K3Qxm3054338; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 21:26:59 -0600 (CST) From: Glenn Johnson Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 21:26:59 -0600 To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0-STABLE ??? Message-ID: <20030120032658.GA35779@gforce.johnson.home> Mail-Followup-To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200301192336.h0JNam2r036785@lurza.secnetix.de> <01ad01c2c02c$e84eaf40$0101a8c0@cascade> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <01ad01c2c02c$e84eaf40$0101a8c0@cascade> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 08:37:42PM -0600, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > It doesn't look that way to me: > > "Features are only added to the 4-STABLE development branch after > a ``settling time'' in -CURRENT. FreeBSD 5.0 does not have the > stabilizing influence of a -STABLE branch. (It is likely that the > 5-STABLE development branch will be created sometime after 5.1-RELEASE > or 5.2-RELEASE.)" > > and > > "Because FreeBSD 5.0 is the first release from the CURRENT branch in > over two years, many of its features are seeing wide exposure for the > first time. Many of these features (such as SMPng) have broad impacts > on the kernel." > > Looks like it will not be branched from current for at least 3 to 6 > months. So if one decides to make the jump to 5.0 and wants to track development, should -CURRENT be tracked or RELENG_5_0? Thanks. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message