Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:05:52 -0500 From: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' Message-ID: <20010316170551.A3379@peitho.fxp.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010316135936.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:59:36PM -0800 References: <p05010405b6d832f1a9e8@[128.113.24.47]> <XFMail.010316135936.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:59:36PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 16-Mar-01 Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > 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. > > Is this in the FAQ yet? If we documented our release engineering process and > put it on the website, that would eliminate most of this confusion. :) I've > somewhat attempted to do this but can't seem to get the release engineer to > look at it. :-P > http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/admin.html#RELEASE-CANDIDATE -- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: FreeBSD: The Power To Serve iEYEARECAAYFAjqyjj8ACgkQObaG4P6BelDrjQCfT13V9QM2TYNI21uvCAc1vVCj BjsAmQEehToYawsUI2oDswNhuHApf5sh =MtDw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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