Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:59:35 +0100 From: Daniel Gerzo <danger@rulez.sk> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1 Available Message-ID: <1406761310.20050321215935@rulez.sk> In-Reply-To: <1111436370.10464.63.camel@opus.cse.buffalo.edu> References: <20050321030332.GA46390@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu> <1113911942.20050321210457@rulez.sk> <1111436370.10464.63.camel@opus.cse.buffalo.edu>
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This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. ------------6C1BEBDC76EDED Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Ken, Monday, March 21, 2005, 9:19:30 PM, you wrote about: > 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. >> > 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. ok, if FreeBSD-team's experience is that it's better keeping -PRERELEASE in BETAx builds, keep it, but I personally think that people who download BETA builds shouldn't be misinformed with uname's output that they are using -PRERELEASE build. another thing is that when there will be more BETAs, it will be harder to track bugs, because people reporting them will everytime send that it appears in -PRERELEASE no matter how old their build is... > 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. well, people tracking RELENG_X should know, that -STABLE branch isn't always so stable as they think it is, or as they expect it, therefore -BETAx in uname's output shouldn't bring those paniced e-mails :) --=20 Best regards +----------=3D=3D/\/\=3D=3D----------+ FreeBSD | DanGer <danger@wilbury.sk> | (__) The | DanGer@IRCnet ICQ261701668 | \\\'',) Power | http://danger.homeunix.org | \/ \ ^ To +----------=3D=3D\/\/=3D=3D----------+ .\._/_) Serve [ How about washing his underwear in jalapena pepper juice? <G> ] ------------6C1BEBDC76EDED--
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