From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 19 07:48:26 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3204F106564A for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 07:48:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from timp87@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B27138FC17 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 07:48:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkbzu17 with SMTP id zu17so2311347bkb.13 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:48:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=rzi8wtKI666O4D6RDXWccYo4SSL+Y7Dfes4XcUT7FLg=; b=r9aMcAg4EBBdAOL3LzdJWyvcYwv2p0sEAEqTv9sRR3if8j1Z/CBKRXzlnfBdQ+9hVn yTk8bwBmGw/y7NZ7rJg5kkxerKPL8NfWV6CWjC3W7uBVjGHihXf2sfV73xtq75PzsKKv 3EtiYy8UXcL9VrFQkAFF5CEwh6EQJYQcQtC7k= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.77.77 with SMTP id f13mr1931232fak.19.1319010504610; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:48:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.152.24.67 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:48:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:48:24 +0400 Message-ID: From: Pavel Timofeev To: George Kontostanos X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:23:43 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: x.0 RELASE isn't for production. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 07:48:26 -0000 2011/10/15 George Kontostanos > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Pavel Timofeev wrote: > > That's what most people think. > > > I think we hurry. Imo, BETA/RC period for !NEW! STABLE branch should be > > longer. Six months, for example. > > New STABLE branch is very important! > > IMHO different OS releases (Unix or not) are usually at the state of > FreeBSD current regarding stability. FreeBSD late BETA and early RC > are usually very stable. Therefore the approximate one month period > between the first beta and the release is adequate time. > > Many users are reluctant to follow stable because they have to go > through the wolrd && kernel procedure. Since freebsd-update exists as > a means of binary upgrading a system through releases, I don't think > that it would be a bad idea to be able to use is for stable as well. > Let's assume that we would have monthly minor releases something like > 9.0.1, 9.0.2 etc. That could ease the fear of .0 release. > It's not bad idea. > > This is coming from someone who is using current all the time for > workstations and stable for production servers and never uses > freebsd-update! > > Best Regards > > -- > George Kontostanos > aisecure.net >