From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 24 20:45:35 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 856D516A421 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:45:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20B1913C49D for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:45:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 14240 invoked by uid 399); 24 Oct 2007 20:45:27 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO slave.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTP; 24 Oct 2007 20:45:27 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:45:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, simon@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200710241350.l9ODoq8D095623@lurza.secnetix.de> Message-ID: References: <200710241350.l9ODoq8D095623@lurza.secnetix.de> X-message-flag: Outlook -- Not just for spreading viruses anymore! X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 0xD5B2F0FB Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Subject: Re: [simon@FreeBSD.org: cvs commit: src/crypto/openssl/ssl ?d1_both.c ?dtls1.h ssl.h ssl_err.c] X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:45:35 -0000 On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Oliver Fromme wrote: > People often talk about either "-current" and "-stable", > so was curious what RELENG_7 would be called right now. > Obviously it's not called "-current", but (according to > you and Simon) it's not called "-stable" either. I have been making an effort in the recent past to refer to the branches by their branch names (RELENG_*) to avoid confusion. I am also of the mind that we should have mailing lists named after the branches as well, rather than going through the awkward transitions that you describe in this post. (Which is a long-winded way to say that I think your confusion is justified and understandable.) I think this is going to be more prevalent in the time-based release world since we will soon have 3 different RELENG branches that could reasonably be called "-stable". > Actually the often used terms "-current" and "-stable" > are ambiguous and not really accurate. E.g. someone > talks about "the -stable branch" and you have no idea > which one of the several RELENG_* ones he means. It's > probably better to always use the CVS names or the > branch name (from sys/conf/newvers.sh). Voila! GMTA :) Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection