From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 10:56:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 130C516A4CE for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:56:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shellma.zin.lublin.pl (shellma.zin.lublin.pl [212.182.126.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F31C43D45 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:56:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pawmal-posting@freebsd.lublin.pl) Received: by shellma.zin.lublin.pl (Postfix, from userid 1018) id B34CD3474C2; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:54:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:54:00 +0200 From: Pawel Malachowski To: Ken Smith Message-ID: <20040823105400.GA42452@shellma.zin.lublin.pl> References: <6E7EB9E8-F4BD-11D8-94CF-003065781ED0@runbox.com> <20040823045620.GG15251@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20040823045620.GG15251@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is Stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:56:05 -0000 On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:56:20AM -0400, Ken Smith wrote: Hello, > 5.x is not stable yet but we expect it will be after the 5.3 release. [...] > So, there will be an overlap of a few months where we have three > active development branches. At this point 6.X is current, 5.X > is "in transition" between being current and stable 5.x is actually frozen, I mean, there is no development branch for 5.x. There are some minor fixes being commited to HEAD, but they won't be in RELENG_5 because of code freeze. Will these fixes be incorporated to RELENG_5 after 5.3-RELEASE is out? 5.3R schedule says about October. Isn't it increasing a risk of `fixed-in-current-long-time-ago-but- -forgotten-MFC' hell? ;) Wasn't it better to branch both RELENG_5 (open) and RELENG_5_3 (frozen) and allow developers to put changes in RELENG_5 after playing in HEAD as usual, without the need of waiting to October? regards, -- Paweł Małachowski