Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 23:16:29 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> To: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?! Message-ID: <20060909231448.E1031@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <200609100159.k8A1xAIn089481@drugs.dv.isc.org> References: <200609100159.k8A1xAIn089481@drugs.dv.isc.org>
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This should be documented somewhere clearly then, as my understanding was that -STABLE meant that anything MFCd back to it *was* tested and deemed stable ... and yes, I do run stable, and yes, I do expect to hit the occasional 'oopses', but "blantant and obvious bugs due to insufficient testing", IMHO, doesn't classify as an 'oops' .... On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, Mark Andrews wrote: > >> Yeah, -STABLE is what you should run if you want stable code, right? > > No. STABLE means STABLE API. > > If you want stable code you run releases. Between releases > stable can become unstable. Think of stable as permanent > BETA code. Changes have passed the first level of testing > in current which is permanent ALPHA code. > > Most of the time beta code is perfectly fine to run but > occasionally things will go wrong. The point of BETA code > is to catch those errors that escape detection in the ALPHA > stage before they make it into a release. That is done by > having a wider diversity of clients run the BETA code. > > Occasionally you have bugs that make it through both the ALPHA > and BETA stages. > > Mark > -- > ISC Training! October 16-20, 2006, in the San Francisco Bay Area, > covering topics from DNS to DHCP. Email training@isc.org. > -- > Mark Andrews, ISC > 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia > PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews@isc.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664
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