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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA'
To: jhb@FreeBSD.ORG (John Baldwin)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 22:50:49 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), arch@FreeBSD.ORG,
	jkh@osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard),
	drosih@rpi.edu (Garance A Drosihn),
	tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert)
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010316122651.jhb@FreeBSD.org> from "John Baldwin" at Mar 16, 2001 12:26:51 PM
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> > So either quit doing '2' or use a variant of
> > Terry's suggestion '-stable-rc'
> > 
> > ~ % uname -srm
> > FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE-RC i386
> 
> Except that it's not a real release candidate.  Which is why we don't
> just use -RC the whole time.  -RC means that we would actually feel
> confident releasing that exact source on the CD's as foo-RELEASE.
> This is not true for foo-BETA, as it is a time for people to test
> stuff out and spot things that need to be fixed.

So what's the difference in tags between a release candidate and
a beta?

8-).

OH MY GOD!
IT'S NO LONGER STABLE!
WHAT _IS_ IT?!?
BETA!?!
GREAT CAESER'S GHOST!  GET CLARK KENT IN HERE _NOW_!!!

..."Beta" is well known to be a synonym for "my cat wrote the
floppy disk driver"...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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