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Date:      Tue, 28 Oct 1997 02:00:12 +0100 (MET)
From:      Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
To:        asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Cc:        peter@netplex.com.au, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf newvers.sh
Message-ID:  <199710280100.CAA00480@bitbox.follo.net>
In-Reply-To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu's message of Mon, 27 Oct 1997 03:01:41 -0800 (PST)
References:  <199710261412.WAA09524@spinner.netplex.com.au> <199710271101.DAA01982@bubble.didi.com>

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>  * 3.0-CURRENT won't exist beyond 3.0-RELEASE..  At some point I assume the 
>  * tree will branch, RELENG_3_0 will become 3.0-STABLE (on which 
>  * 3.0[.*]-RELEASE will happen), and HEAD will become 3.1-CURRENT or 
>  * something.  So, there won't be a 3.0-CURRENT after 3.0-STABLE begins.
> 
> I don't think so.  I don't think DavidG will agree with that either. :)

This is what I see happening, in which I can't see a problem (unless
we're planning to keep calling ourselves 3.0 current after we have a
RELENG_3_0 branch):

Development continues as of today
	current == 3.0-CURRENT
RELENG_3_0 and RELENG_3_0_BP tags are laid down
	current -> 3.1-CURRENT
	RELENG_3_0 -> 3.0-RELENG
3.0 goes into alpha/beta/gamme testing
	RELENG_3_0 -> 3.0-ALPHA/BETA/GAMMA
3.0 is released
	RELENG_3_0 -> 3.0-RELEASE (briefly) or possibly 3.0.0-RELEASE
post 3.0 release
	RELENG_3_0 -> 3.0-STABLE (or 3.0.0-STABLE)

This matches what we've done with 2.2, at least (except for the
-RELENG part, as we've been calling it 2.2-RELEASE all the time before
-GAMMA, as far as I can see from the CVS logs).

Is there something major I'm missing here?

>  * So, how do we tell the difference between 3.0-STABLE before and after 
>  * 3.0-RELEASE?  Damn good question, unless it becomes 3.0.0-STABLE or 
>  * 3.0.1-STABLE depending on how many aborted releases there are... :-]  (can 
>  * you say 2.2.1? :-)
> 
> As you say yourself above, this is just moving the problem from one
> place to another.

It has never been -stable until there has been a release - any reason
to start calling it that now?

Eivind.



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