Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 12:45:37 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> Cc: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@iMach.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When does 4.x become -STABLE? Message-ID: <200003011945.MAA96837@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Mar 2000 12:49:58 EST." <20000301124958.B426@argon.blackdawn.com> References: <20000301124958.B426@argon.blackdawn.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003010026270.489-100000@workhorse.iMach.com>
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In message <20000301124958.B426@argon.blackdawn.com> Will Andrews writes: : On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 12:31:05AM -0700, Forrest W. Christian wrote: : > With the advent of 4.0-RELEASE, does this mean that 4.0-STABLE will soon : > follow along with 5.0-CURRENT? : : No. 4.x-STABLE will probably come around 4.2-RELEASE. It may come some time : after 4.1-RELEASE but not before. Of course, this is just a prediction. The last publicly announced plans were to branch 4.x right after the release so things like acpi and kernel threads could get rolling right away. At the point of the branch, 4.0 moves from 4.0-current to 4.0-stable and 5.0-current will be born. In general, the FreeBSD project tends to support the last two releases, and the last release on the previous stable branch if there aren't three releases in the new branch. Let us assume that 4.0R comes out, then 3.5R comes out a few months later, then 4.1R and 3.6R. Here's an approximate table of what would be supported: Approx Date Event What's supported after the event. 3/00 today: 3.4R, 3.3R 3/00 4.0R: 4.0R, 3.4R, 3.3R 4/00 3.5R: 4.0R, 3.5R, 3.4R 7/00 4.1R: 4.1R, 4.0R, 3.5R 8/00 3.6R: 4.1R, 4.0R, 3.6R 11/00 4.2R: 4.2R, 4.1R 3/01 4.3R: 4.3R, 4.2R Various people in the project may choose to support a wider window than shown above. The security officer tends to follow the above closely, unless there are people on the SO team that can test on more releases. Given the nature of the changes in 4.0, I think that the SO team will support the 3.x-stable branch to approx the 4.3R or 4.4R timeframe. Note, the above dates are based on the one release every 4 months that has been traditional and which Jordan talked about being the target at FreeBSD Con'99. This doesn't represent an official schedule, nor is it a firm commitment to anything. It is just my guess based on publicly available information and past history. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear. For external use only. Your milage may vary. Do not taunt HappyFunBall. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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