From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 16 15:48:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail-100baset.rpi.edu [128.113.26.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A1C937B718; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 15:48:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA31610; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 18:48:06 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010316134113.I29888@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20010316214210.5a3dc591.steveo@eircom.net> <20010316160949.A3791@guinness.osdn.com> <20010316134113.I29888@fw.wintelcom.net> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 18:48:05 -0500 To: Alfred Perlstein , Jim Mock From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: More BETA evilness Re: BETA induced nervousness Cc: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, j mckitrick , jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 1:41 PM -0800 3/16/01, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >My current solution is instead of -BETA have -STABLE-RC, the >'-RC' is there to give knowledgeable people a heads-up and >the '-STABLE' is prominent enough to reduce the amount of >concern. It isn't quite the same as 4.3-stable, because there hasn't been a 4.3-release yet. It also isn't a "release candidate", so -RC seems wrong to me. Something like: 4.3-pre-release or 4.3-precursor seems better to me. Different enough for 'ports', but neither are as unsettling as seeing the word "beta" pop up when you were expecting a "stable" operating system. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message