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Date:      Thu, 05 Oct 2000 11:03:42 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Ralph Huntington <rjh@mohawk.net>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Stable branch
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20001005105420.04a7b540@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010050546550.8007-100000@mohegan.mohawk.net >
References:  <20001004220906.D50210@dragon.nuxi.com>

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At 04:06 AM 10/5/2000, Ralph Huntington wrote:

>Stable branch is very important for production use and should incorporate
>bug fixes and security patches, but not feature enhancements. The extent
>of support and maintenance for stable should be one major release prior to
>the latest release (not current), i.e., since 4.x-RELEASE is the latest,
>then 3.x-STABLE hould be supported with bug fixes and security patches
>until a 5.x-RELEASE is out.
>
>Does this seem unreasonable?            -=r=-


Perhaps this should be formalized as three branches:

Branch  name:           Bug/security    New features?   "Breakable" for
                       fixes?                           a day or more?

-PRODUCTION             YES             NO              NO

-STABLE                 YES             YES, PREFERABLY NO
                                        AFTER TESTING   
                                        IN -CURRENT

-DEVELOPMENT           YES              YES             YES
(formerly -CURRENT)

What do you think of this as a model for what people seem to be
asking for?

--Brett



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