Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:14:33 -0800 From: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG>, developers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG, portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVS Issues with branch.. Was: Re: HEADS UP: Be nice to -CURRENT ( "1 week Feature Slush" ) Message-ID: <20020315071433.GD11382@freebsdmall.com> In-Reply-To: <20020315004008.D022138CC@overcee.wemm.org> References: <20020308101724.GA8515@freebsdmall.com> <20020315004008.D022138CC@overcee.wemm.org>
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--Km1U/tdNT/EmXiR1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 04:40:08PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > If this is going to be a "static" release (calling it RELENG_5_anything is > a mistake IMHO) then this isn't a big deal. But if people are expecting > it to have ongoing secirity fixes etc like we do with RELENG_4_5 etc then > we have a problem, because it cannot last very long at all. Ongoing security fixes for a SNAPSHOT ??? No, that is definitely not the case. > Accordingly, I would much prefer that the branch (if we have to have it) > would be called SNAPSHOT_5_DP1 or soemthing, so that the "RELENG_" prefix > doesn't unduely raise expectations that it will keep working, or move the > DP1 release elsewhere if we want it to remain cvsup'able long term. I think that the huge warning signs all over the release documentation will do a lot more to set the expectations that the name of a CVS tag, but just to be sure I suppose we can keep the RELENG namespace for official releases. Your proposed name change works for me. - Murray --Km1U/tdNT/EmXiR1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8kZ9YtNcQog5FH30RAl/hAJ9e/9zcsyVCDCeGC24ULJNOMvLE6QCfapSI SHaVqa79mRRuo4oIEspgZvU= =PngP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Km1U/tdNT/EmXiR1-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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