From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 17 4:54:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDDBC37B401 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 04:54:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from fubar.adept.org (fubar.adept.org [63.147.172.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8916A43E42 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 04:54:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@adept.org) Received: by fubar.adept.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5EA161527E; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 04:54:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fubar.adept.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C77115247 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 04:54:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 04:54:07 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Hoskins To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? In-Reply-To: <3DD73B47.6000105@tenebras.com> Message-ID: <20021117044229.Q29719-100000@fubar.adept.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Michael Sierchio wrote: > Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: > > It sure is misleading. Why is it called -stable then? You would expect > > to stand up to its name. > Cf. Humpty Dumpty, I'm afraid. -STABLE doesn't mean stable at all. Please don't start this adolescant flamefest again. Any newbie who reads the handbook should understand the meaning of "stable". (It's all spelled out in black and white.) Any non-newbie who's actually been involved with software products should understand the typical use of a -STABLE branch. I'm not sure if the earlier post claiming -stable use since '94 or so is accurate, but if it is, as another pointed out, you should have seen similar periods in -STABLE before now and been better prepared to avoid these types of situations. Anything but -RELEASE is a development branch, that's typically how software projects go. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message