From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 16 17:46:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D64F37B719 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:46:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f2H1kRv09368; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:46:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:46:27 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' Message-ID: <20010316174627.B9267@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <20010316170755.S29888@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010316171845.U29888@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010316171845.U29888@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 05:18:45PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 05:18:45PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > You stated that -BETA actually is a bit less stable than -STABLE and > hence should be -BETA. The problem is that: > THERE'S NO WARNING UNTIL YOU ACTUALLY BOOT WITH YOUR '-BETA' SYSTEM Ok, so now you've pissed off JKH so much he has nixed 4.4-{BETA,PRERELEASE,whatever}. Well, the potential bugginess of -STABLE right before release will still be there, but there will be nothing to alert the user about it. All you've done is removed valuable testing of Ports building. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX Disclaimer: Not speaking for FreeBSD, just expressing my own opinion. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message