Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:03:43 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is Stable Message-ID: <20040823070343.GG59140@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20040823045620.GG15251@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <6E7EB9E8-F4BD-11D8-94CF-003065781ED0@runbox.com> <20040823045620.GG15251@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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--uJWb33pM2TcUAXIl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:56:20AM -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 11:32:24PM -0500, AL Grant wrote: > > I am confused. Is 5.x stable now and 6.x current or is the latest=20 > > stable release 4.10? >=20 > Lots of people are. ;-) >=20 > 5.x is not stable yet but we expect it will be after the 5.3 release. > The first BETA for 5.3 was released today. We don't expect people > to switch from 4.X to 5.X overnight, it will most likely take people > time to make the transition. Especially large sites. Because of > that we will continue to support 4.X for a while. Development > (mostly just bugfixes) will continue until 4.11 is released, at > which point development of 4.X will stop and it becomes an Errata > Branch (only *really* major bug fixes along with security fixes > will be applied). >=20 > So, there will be an overlap of a few months where we have three > active development branches. At this point 6.X is current, 5.X > is "in transition" between being current and stable, and 4.X is > still considered stable. After the 5.3 release it is expected > 5.X will become stable. At that point I'm not sure what to call > 4.X since development won't have stopped completely but it will > still 'be there' for people who need time to make the jump to 5.X > as the new stable. >=20 Can you clarify, what will be the policy of the RELENG_4 after it "becomes an Errata Branch"? Will it be passed to Security Officer, and no new featuress could be committed to this branch? Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --uJWb33pM2TcUAXIl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBKZbPqRfpzJluFF4RAtDrAJwJiK/M8l6eyJv2e5lD6wq8nARRIwCeILWQ HzqNyu96nNaHMdefr2Q4B+o= =l5Ql -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uJWb33pM2TcUAXIl--
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