From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 6 00:53:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA09145 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 00:53:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA09127; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 00:52:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (scanner@localhost) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id DAA08776; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 03:49:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 03:49:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Watson To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Nate Williams , stable@FreeBSD.org, committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Status of -stable In-Reply-To: <29476.834043606@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Since we can't use CVS to maintain long-term branches, we have to > stop doing that. With the next release of 2.1-stable (which will be > numbered "2.1.5") the 2.1-stable branch will be dead. We will not > resurrect another -stable branch in its place, as previously planned, > and all development will take place in -current as it did before. We > may do short term branch development leading up to each new release, > but nothing like the 15 month run of the 2.1-stable branch! This has > simply been a nightmare and -stable has, at most, one or two more > months to live. Well, Hmmm I LIKED the -stable tree. release with bug fixes. Im gonna cry when you murder the poor thing. -- ===================================| Webspan Inc., ISP Division. FreeBSD 2.1.0 is available now! | Phone: 908-367-8030 ext. 126 -----------------------------------| 500 West Kennedy Blvd., Lakewood, NJ-08701 Turning PCs into Workstations | E-Mail: scanner@webspan.net http://www.freebsd.org | SysAdmin / Network Engineer / Security ===================================| Member BSDNET team! http://www.bsdnet.org