From owner-freebsd-security Thu Oct 5 11:33:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B640337B66E; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 11:33:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp248.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.248]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e95IWKi09519; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 11:32:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) 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: <4.3.2.7.2.20001005105420.04a7b540@localhost> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 11:32:34 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Stable branch Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Paul Richards , "David O'Brien" , Ralph Huntington Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 05-Oct-00 Brett Glass wrote: > At 04:06 AM 10/5/2000, Ralph Huntington wrote: > >>Stable branch is very important for production use and should incorporate >>bug fixes and security patches, but not feature enhancements. The extent >>of support and maintenance for stable should be one major release prior to >>the latest release (not current), i.e., since 4.x-RELEASE is the latest, >>then 3.x-STABLE hould be supported with bug fixes and security patches >>until a 5.x-RELEASE is out. >> >>Does this seem unreasonable? -=r=- > > > Perhaps this should be formalized as three branches: > > Branch name: Bug/security New features? "Breakable" for > fixes? a day or more? > > -PRODUCTION YES NO NO This is called sticking with a release and applying security patches as they are released. It already exists. > -STABLE YES YES, PREFERABLY NO > AFTER TESTING > IN -CURRENT > > -DEVELOPMENT YES YES YES > (formerly -CURRENT) > > What do you think of this as a model for what people seem to be > asking for? Seems to be the one we are already using. > --Brett -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message