Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 23:41:27 -0800 (PST) From: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@eircom.net> Cc: <kstewart@urx.com>, <martini@invision.net>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4.3-BETA Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103202339380.29675-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com> In-Reply-To: <20010320213334.56106fcd.steveo@eircom.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:53:50 -0800 > Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> wrote: > KS> > - -RELEASE branch doesn't change. To my mind this is all backwards. > KS> Not in my mind. The -release branch always has something wrong with it > > But -release is *not* a branch, it is a point. It cannot change, it > exists on vast numbers of CDs, the release is what got burned on all those > CDs. Not being someone with any authority... I've heard rumblings to the effect that in the future, -release *will* be a branch and major things (ie security fixes) will be back ported to it. But the only people that would be able to confirm this would be the security officer (Kris I believe) and the release officer (Jordan). -gordon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.33.0103202339380.29675-100000>