From owner-freebsd-security Thu Oct 5 16:41:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56FDD37B66E; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 16:41:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13hKdP-000PKH-00; Fri, 06 Oct 2000 01:41:07 +0200 Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 01:41:07 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Brett Glass Cc: Warner Losh , developers@freebsd.org, security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stable branch Message-ID: <20001006014106.A97336@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20001005105420.04a7b540@localhost> <20001004220906.D50210@dragon.nuxi.com> <200010051830.MAA01024@harmony.village.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20001005173257.048b9f00@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001005173257.048b9f00@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 05:36:56PM -0600 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu 2000-10-05 (17:36), Brett Glass wrote: > At 12:30 PM 10/5/2000, Warner Losh wrote: > > >Otherwise would do a PR spin with the following patch to 3.x would do > >the trick (I'd call it -solid, because -stable is suitable for > >production machines). > > Personally, I would equate "-SOLID" with "suitable for production > machines" whereas -STABLE would be "OK for application developers > and eager/early adopters but still settling down to the confidence > level of -SOLID." > > Which might imply setting things up so that the -STABLE branch > becomes -SOLID after, say, a good .2 release. Then people will say, "Oh no, it's the first -SOLID release, we should only start using it after two -SOLID releases". Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message