Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:07:05 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@sage.thought.org> To: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?! Message-ID: <20060914230705.GB99220@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <d6895b7d0609140844re8260fel953ddfeff0a9edf8@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060909182831.GA32004@FS.denninger.net> <200609100159.k8A1xAIn089481@drugs.dv.isc.org> <d6895b7d0609140844re8260fel953ddfeff0a9edf8@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:44:12AM -0400, Jamie Bowden wrote: > On 9/9/06, Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org> wrote: > > >> Yeah, -STABLE is what you should run if you want stable code, right? > > > No. STABLE means STABLE API. > > > If you want stable code you run releases. Between releases > > stable can become unstable. Think of stable as permanent > > BETA code. Changes have passed the first level of testing > > in current which is permanent ALPHA code. > > No, this is what it means now. I've been running FreeBSD since 1.1, > and -STABLE used to mean exactly that. The developement branch was > -C, and -S was where things went after extensive testing. You were > not allowed to break -S or Jordan would rip your fingers off. This > change to the current structure wasn't meant to be permanent when it > was done (between 4 and 5, IIRC), and was only done out of necessity > because the changes across that major release were huge. > > FreeBSD needs an interim track that mirrors what -STABLE used to be, > which is a track between point releases that can be relied upon (and > RELEASE_x_y doesn't work, since it only addresses security and bugs > deemed worthy, which most aren't). > YES [bar]. Until then I'm wedged into running -RELEASE (and occasionally praying to the computer gods. > -- > Jamie Bowden > -- > "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" > Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" > Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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