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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[-- Attachment #1 --] Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de> writes: >> If someone sees the result of RELENG_6 is called STABLE, he or she will >> problably think, this is the line where bug fixes are added, security >> problems fixed and the whole thing is meant for production systems. While >> 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. > > 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. :) [-- Attachment #2 --] -----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-----help
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