Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 22:53:02 -0800 From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> Subject: Re: Drop "New Technology" Moniker Message-ID: <200411062253.02625.krinklyfig@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <283B05003ADCFA42440168A3@[192.168.1.16]> References: <283B05003ADCFA42440168A3@[192.168.1.16]>
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On Saturday 06 November 2004 06:18 pm, "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> wrote: > I have said this in the past. Now seems like a pertinent time to > express this opinion again. > > Please let -STABLE be stable and -CURRENT be the development branch. > Please do not call anything from the -CURRENT branch a -RELEASE. > Please do not label code as a "new technology release" as a notional > label. Please either release the code or don't. > > Instead of waiting for a "dot-oh" release to know that the next major > version of FreeBSD is ready for prime time, users wait for a "this > time we really mean it" release announcement. The difference is > mostly semantic. The old way was more rigorous. I like the old way > better. FWIW, a recent post to -current explained some of this, and also mentioned that future versioning will be time-based rather than feature-based (like OpenBSD), so this sort of issue shouldn't come up again. http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?418C0EED.1060301 - jt
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