Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 11:40:04 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2.1 RC? Message-ID: <403251F4.4010705@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <4032448B.2030709@nbritton.org> References: <9810709762.20040215031601@inbox.ru> <40305B6B.9030608@nbritton.org> <995841125.20040216154554@inbox.ru> <403112B4.1080801@nbritton.org> <83273932.20040217165120@inbox.ru> <4032448B.2030709@nbritton.org>
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Nikolas Britton wrote: > A -RELEASE is little more then a snapshot of X day of Y year of ether > FreeBSDs -STABLE or -CURRENT. > Hmm, I wonder if the RELENG team would bristle at that statement, especially taken out of context as I have here. We might want to mention that the tree is "frozen" for some weeks prior to a RELEASE to make sure that no unexpected "features" are added to the code prior to it's RELEASE date...and to give time for at least a certain type of testing.... RELEASES are tested, but not by the general public per se*, prior to being tagged and made available to that public as X_X_RELEASE. $0.02 for clarification, Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. *Apart from the developers/committers, users who read -STABLE (as an example) are encouraged to update to the "frozen" code base and give it a workout in hopes that any hidden gnats will come out in the open prior to the RELEASE date....
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