From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 9 23:57:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22C5E37B401; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 23:57:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au [128.250.20.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F8A743FA3; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 23:57:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au) Received: from elkanah.its.unimelb.edu.au (elkanah.its.unimelb.edu.au [128.250.18.41])h5A6vofE009454; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:57:54 +1000 (EST) From: JacobRhoden Organization: University of Melbourne To: Doug Barton , Eric Rivas Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:57:50 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <000901c32eeb$4b15d4a0$0200000a@fireball> <20030610005022.289b01b9.ericr@sourmilk.net> <20030609221151.K23396@znfgre.qbhto.arg> In-Reply-To: <20030609221151.K23396@znfgre.qbhto.arg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306101657.50544.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Version Release numbers X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 06:57:57 -0000 On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 03:24 pm, Doug Barton wrote: > > Does anyone else think it's a good idea that 5.1 should have been called > > 5.0.1, then once 5.x goes stable, start with 5.1? hrm thats a much better idea than the previous one... > No. Historically a new branch isn't considered stable till x.2, and > minor version numbers are evil. why are minor versions evil? Jacob Rhoden Phone: +61 3 8344 6102 ITS Division Email: jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au Melbourne University Mobile: +61 403 788 386