From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 21 17:37:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dns.sunline.net (dns.sunline.net [207.30.56.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9BBB37BDD0 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:37:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scorpio@sunline.net) Received: from jeff.sunline.net (jeff.sunline.net [207.30.56.254]) by dns.sunline.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA19591 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 20:34:18 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.3.0.20000321203146.00a78940@mail.afcon.net> X-Sender: drkshdw@mail.afcon.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 20:32:28 -0500 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Jeff Palmer Subject: Re: dot-0 releases Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Pardon me if I make an idiot of myself.. But the whole "debate" (for lack of a better term) seems to be about 4.0-STABLE being STABLE. Seems to me that if it's not meant for production machines, it probably should be -RELEASE or -RC as opposed to -STABLE I would say the label "-STABLE" should mean it's golden, ready to go. -RC would mean it's doing pretty well, more people can trust it, but not quite production machine ready.. -RELEASE would mean please play with it, and report any bugs, it shouldn't crash on you, or make you reformat, but it's not really for everyone.. -CURRENT would be like "not for the weak" expect problems, and possibly reformats.. unless you are good enough with unix/programming to debug error messages. For those of you who are questioning, these are my interpretations of what the labels SHOULD mean, and not reality.. Something labeled "STABLE" in my definition would mean ready for mass market So maybe the switch to 4.0-STABLE was premature? just my two cents.. Jeff Palmer scorpio@sunline.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message