Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:29:12 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggest renaming and extending the -CURRENT and -STABLE lines Message-ID: <feir48$ah4$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <86przndoe8.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <feilee$2m3t$3@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net> <86przndoe8.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig410617FA8109077B471FD13C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrote: > Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de> writes: >> If someone sees the result of RELENG_6 is called STABLE, he or she wil= l >> problably think, this is the line where bug fixes are added, security >> problems fixed and the whole thing is meant for production systems. Wh= ile >> the first two things may be true, I would not suggest RELENG_6 for >> production systems. Normally the -STABLE line works fine. But I *have*= >> times in the past where a driver was changes and suddenly the system >> *didn't* work after a reboot or showed strange behaviour. >=20 > YMMV. I run both CURRENT and STABLE on production systems. And we'll find many other people on this newsgroup who do the same, but not everyone's a kernel hacker, or even a decent programmer, so it's kind of insignificant. This will probably degenerate into a bikeshed so I'll add just one suggestion: rename "-STABLE" to "-ABISTABLE" or "-STABLEABI" and carry on as usual. :) --------------enig410617FA8109077B471FD13C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHDO/IldnAQVacBcgRAmEOAKCAcmPFKHFuGnZWhipasnP6RGrvHACggKCa 9bg8n0oo52+BEqvSt7XJEGQ= =XM2l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig410617FA8109077B471FD13C--
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