From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 16 17:34:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from jasper.nighttide.net (jasper.nighttide.net [209.222.117.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9269437B718; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:34:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darren@nighttide.net) Received: from localhost (darren@localhost) by jasper.nighttide.net (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2H1Xxu10749; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:34:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from darren@nighttide.net) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:33:59 -0500 (EST) From: Darren Henderson To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Jordan Hubbard , , , Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' In-Reply-To: <20010315215349.A70879@mollari.cthul.hu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > There have been several people on -questions and -stable confused and > worried about why they got a beta release instead of a stable snapshot > like they "asked for". I think we could stand to find a better name, > perhaps 4.3-PRERELEASE. If the lack of the stable is what is confusing them then perhaps it should stay. Is there a limit on the length of the tag? Something like 4.2-STABLE(4.3-TRANSITION) would be clearer if overly verbose. ______________________________________________________________________ Darren Henderson darren@nighttide.net Help fight junk e-mail, visit http://www.cauce.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message