From: Alex Perel <veers@disturbed.net> To: paul@originative.co.uk Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: -stable vs -current (was Re: solid NFS patch #6... ) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905011441320.22353-100000@shattered.disturbed.net> In-Reply-To: <A6D02246E1ABD2119F5200C0F0303D10FF1E@octopus>
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On Sat, 1 May 1999 paul@originative.co.uk wrote:
> The -stable branch shouldn't have anything done to it, that's my whole
> point, we shouldn't be merging stuff back into the -stable branch, only fix
> specific straightforward problems that don't require complete
> re-engineering.
No new features means stagnation in development. It means that someone
coming to FreeBSD and looking for a feature will only find it in -current,
which, by virtue of being -current, will have other miscellaneous problems.
This person gets annoyed and leaves.
This is the _LAST_ thing we need right now.
Your idea of -beta is exactly the idea of -stable. If you want something
that is only receiving bugfixes, run 2.2.x. It's in maintanance mode now.
> Then what happens to -stable, is it going to get thouroughly tested with all
> these changes? You're currently treating -stable as a "beta stable" in that
> users who track it are being used as beta testers to find the bugs caused by
> merges from current. There's no track for "really stable" users who want to
> pick up necessary bug fixes.
Gosh, I was under the impression that every FreeBSD user was a beta
tester... :)
It's inevitable that bugs will be found in -stable more quickly than in
-current, simply because -stable has a much larger user base. Just think
back to the days after 3.0-RELEASE and the myriad of bug reports that
suddenly came in because the level of usage for that code skyrocketed.
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