From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jan 27 19:13:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B0B215790 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 19:13:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id TAA18612; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 19:12:31 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id TAA27596; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 19:12:31 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn0.utah.xylan.com [198.206.184.236]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id TAA18584; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 19:12:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38910A46.73EE0191@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 20:17:26 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Howard Cc: "James A. Mutter" , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another advocacy opportunity References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG James Howard wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, James A. Mutter wrote: > > > > FreeBSD is developed by a group of over 150 volunteers who work on > > > an ongoing basis to ensure its reliability and stability. Two separate > > > versions are developed simultaneously. The first, called FreeBSD-STABLE, > > > is slowly moving, but more stable and reliable than the second. The > > > second, called FreeBSD-CURRENT, is less stable and more prone to problems > > > than -STABLE. -CURRENT also includes the latest drivers and features, > > > but with less testing. All changes made to -CURRENT migrate to -STABLE > > > after significant testing. With over 100 updates, additions, and bug > > > fixes made to the two branches each day, several easy and simple means > > > of keeping a FreeBSD installation updated have been developed, each > > > with a distinct niche. Additionally, daily snapshots of both branches > > > are released via the Internet for testing and usage, as well as regularly > > > scheduled releases. > > > > I don't like the statement that FreeBSD-STABLE is "more stable and > > reliable than the second". It implies that FreeBSD-Current is not > > stable and that FreeBSD-Stable is only marginally better than > > FreeBSD-Current. I wouldn't even mention stability problems with > > -STABLE (I think that this is fair) and then I would recharacterize > > -CURRENT as a developers only release where new feature/ideas/concepts > > are properly tested before being merged into the -STABLE branch. > > How does this revised version strike you: > > FreeBSD is developed by a group of over 150 volunteers who work > on an ongoing basis to ensure its reliability and stability. Two > separate versions are developed simultaneously. The first, called > FreeBSD-STABLE is targetted and end users and professionals. The > second, FreeBSD-CURRENT, is aimed at developers and testers often > including new ideas and features. -CURRENT also includes the > latest drivers and but with less testing. All changes made to > -CURRENT migrate to -STABLE after significant testing. With over > 100 updates, additions, and bug fixes made to the two branches > each day, several easy and simple means of keeping a FreeBSD > installation updated have been developed, each with a distinct > niche. Additionally, daily snapshots of both branches are > released via the Internet for testing and usage, as well as > regularly scheduled releases. > > I onyl changed a couple sentences, but this sounds a lot better in my > opinion. What do you think? Much better, but run-on. See how you feel about this: FreeBSD is developed by a group of nearly 200 volunteers who work on an ongoing basis to ensure its reliability and stability. Two separate versions or ``branches'' are developed simultaneously. The FreeBSD-STABLE branch is targeted at end users and professionals. The FreeBSD-CURRENT branch where the leading edge development occurs, and is intended developers and testers. Important changes made to the CURRENT branch migrate to the STABLE branch after significant testing and review. With over 100 updates, additions, and bug fixes made to the two branches each day, several easy and simple means of keeping a FreeBSD installation updated have been developed, each with a distinct niche. Additionally, daily snapshots of both branches are released via the Internet for testing and usage, as well as regularly scheduled releases. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message