From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 16 14: 6: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from peitho.fxp.org (peitho.fxp.org [209.26.95.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C6FE37B719; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 14:05:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cdf.lists@fxp.org) Received: by peitho.fxp.org (Postfix, from userid 1501) id 29C121360C; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:05:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:05:52 -0500 From: Chris Faulhaber To: John Baldwin Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' Message-ID: <20010316170551.A3379@peitho.fxp.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:59:36PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:59:36PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: >=20 > 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. > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > 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 > =20 http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/admin.html#RELEASE-CANDIDATE --=20 Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: FreeBSD: The Power To Serve iEYEARECAAYFAjqyjj8ACgkQObaG4P6BelDrjQCfT13V9QM2TYNI21uvCAc1vVCj BjsAmQEehToYawsUI2oDswNhuHApf5sh =MtDw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message