From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 22 1:39:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pooh.elsevier.nl (pooh.elsevier.nl [145.36.13.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BE3237C179 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 01:39:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@pooh.elsevier.nl) Received: (from steve@localhost) by pooh.elsevier.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA00348; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 09:45:08 GMT (envelope-from steve) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <00032119450200.18784@nomad.dataplex.net> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 09:45:08 -0000 (GMT) From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: Voxware is toast. Get used to it. (Re: Suggestions for impro Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22-Mar-00 Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> Actually, the problem is that we ARE now doing good quality "dot-zero" >> releases > > IMHO, the problen is not so much the -RELEASE as it is the -STABLE which > preceeded it. I think we should continue to call 4.0 -CURRENT for a while and > change it to -STABLE only when we have enough tire kicking that we can, in > confidence, tell anyone to install it on their production system. (Perhaps > just > before 4.1 comes out). Alternative naming suggestion : 3.X -SOLID 4.X -STABLE 5.X -CURRENT The basis of this is that since 3.0 there have really been three tracks nearly all the time with the oldest being the most suitable for 'fit and forget' maximum reliablilty, the middle one for general use (with up to date features and hardware support) and the newest (-CURRENT) bleeding as much as it needs to for the sake of progress. Or aternatively viewed technology is developed on -CURRENT, matured in -STABLE and hammered under -SOLID. Then those that think -STABLE isn't good enough can be pointed to -SOLID with clear implications in the naming. Last time I looked stable did not necessarily carry the same sort of implications as solid. OK, so it's a daft idea. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message