Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:19:30 -0500 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: DanGer <danger@rulez.sk> Cc: Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1 Available Message-ID: <1111436370.10464.63.camel@opus.cse.buffalo.edu> In-Reply-To: <1113911942.20050321210457@rulez.sk> References: <20050321030332.GA46390@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu> <1113911942.20050321210457@rulez.sk>
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On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 21:04 +0100, Daniel Gerzo wrote:
> Hello Ken,
> ok, since there is official anouncement and there are already posted
> some information to news servers like osnews, i think we should update
> newvers.sh so people who download BETA1 build wouldn't be confused
> with -PRERELEASE branch.
>
> here is simple diff:
>
> --- newvers.sh.orig Mon Mar 21 20:44:45 2005
> +++ newvers.sh Mon Mar 21 20:45:31 2005
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
>
> TYPE="FreeBSD"
> REVISION="5.4"
> -BRANCH="PRERELEASE"
> +BRANCH="BETA1"
> RELEASE="${REVISION}-${BRANCH}"
> VERSION="${TYPE} ${RELEASE}"
>
Thanks for the suggestion but we can't. Lots and lots and lots of past
experience has shown us that it really freaks some people out if
newvers.sh on a RELENG_X branch says anything other than -STABLE,
-PRERELEASE, or -RELEASE.
Just before the Release Candidates we will create the RELENG_5_4 branch
and the RCs will be based on that. Once that's done we are free to name
that RELENG_5_4 branch "-RC1", "-RC2", etc. But doing that sort of
thing on the RELENG_X branches has caused lots of panic-stricken email
from people who believe the RELENG_X branches are "stable branches" and
therefore should never have words like "-BETA" associated with them.
--
Ken Smith
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