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To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:16:05 +0200
From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org>
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Subject: Re: freebsd naming of releases 
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Charles Swiger wrote:
> On Mar 28, 2005, at 11:44 PM, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> >> I know that there is some explanation for the terms at the site but 
> >> why should terms be used which need an extra eplanation?
> >
> > I find that the terms "alpha", "beta" and "production" do not quite 
> > fit the FreeBSD development paradigm. (Is RELENG_5 beta or 
> > production?)
> 
> It's beta.  -CURRENT (or RELENG_6) is alpha, and production is now at

Wrong: Current != Alpha.
  Industry common parlance of "Alpha Release" is per se a sort of (pre) release.
  FreeBSD Current is continuously moving & not a release;  eg cvs -r HEAD 

Perhaps you equated Alpha & Current because that's the first one
has access to from commercial companies & FreeBSD respectively, but
that doesnt make them the same thing.  Binaries from a commercial
company's current one wouldn't normally see (let alone the source :-).

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