From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 8 16:47:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CA8216A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 16:47:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from imo-d23.mx.aol.com (imo-d23.mx.aol.com [205.188.139.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09F3F43D58 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 16:47:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from TM4526@aol.com) Received: from TM4526@aol.com by imo-d23.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id v.d4.1a9c2a60 (3842); Mon, 8 Nov 2004 11:47:06 -0500 (EST) From: TM4526@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 11:47:06 EST To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5114 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: difference between releases X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 16:47:19 -0000 In a message dated 11/8/04 10:49:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, keramida@ceid.upatras.gr writes: >> How discouraging for you not to understand that. > > Its "discouraging", because a "Release" should be " a completed set of > features that have been tested and thought to be bug-free" >You know that this isn't exactly true. I have yet to see one "release" of any >product that does not have bugs. I probably never will. I think the "thought to be bug-free" covers that, but I know that english is a difficult language. The problem with "getting over it" is that people "think" that a release is thought to be well-tested, but its apparently no different from any other beta release. I think its rather important. When you get a release, you don't expect that some unknown set of features is still in some sort of Beta stage. The purpose of a release is to get what you're doing done, and then start on new stuff based on the "release", which should be a known, completed code base. All part of the experience I suppose.