From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 25 10:46:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from europe.std.com (europe.std.com [199.172.62.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7962414DB1 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 10:46:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lowell@world.std.com) Received: from world.std.com (lowell@world-f.std.com [199.172.62.5]) by europe.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA08395 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:46:14 -0500 (EST) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by world.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA11580; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:46:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:46:13 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001251846.NAA11580@world.std.com> From: Lowell Gilbert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (jooji@nickelkid.com) Subject: Re: when does CURRENT fork with 4-STABLE? References: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:29:33 -0500 (EST) > From: "Jasper O'Malley" > cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > In the past, -stable has only moved to a new branch *months* after the > > first release from that branch. The '-stable' designation isn't moved > > until the branch is, well, stable. Giving it time to settle out, as > > it were. This was the case on 3.0, on 2.2.1, on 2.1.0. In the private e-mail that "Mick" is quoting here, I also said that I *had* heard (in some of Jordan's messages) that -stable would be moved over much more quickly than in past transitions. I was trying to figure out if he (Mick) had better information than I, and it turned out that the answer was 'no.' Maybe someone who *does* know what they're talking about will speak up eventually. Mr. O'Malley and I don't seem to qualify. At least on the pedantic point -- for most people's purposes, though, the fact that there will continue to be a 3-STABLE (and releases from it) long after there is a 4-STABLE is more important than which one is "really" -STABLE. Be well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message