Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:07:18 +0200 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recent branching of CURRENT Message-ID: <200710130207.19104.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <47100021.2020500@FreeBSD.org> References: <470FDB17.2080900@intersonic.se> <200710130052.00714.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <47100021.2020500@FreeBSD.org>
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On Saturday 13 October 2007 01:15:45 Kris Kennaway wrote: > Mel wrote: > > On Friday 12 October 2007 23:15:32 Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> Just out of curiosity, why did I fail to notice the branching of > >>> RELENG_7 and 8-CURRENT? I'm subscribed to -stable, -current and > >>> -announce. > >> > >> Because it's an administrative change that is just a normal part of the > >> release engineering process. i.e. 7.0 is not released etc. > > > > And RELENG_7 is not considered the 'stable' branch yet, but 8-CURRENT is > > just forked for development of entirely new features? I.o.w. do we 2 > > current or 2 stable branches now? > > Those are just names, don't worry too much about it. RELENG_7 will be > the start of a new -STABLE branch once it is released. That is actually what I'm worried about. It means drivers are less likely to be MFC'd to RELENG_6 from 7.0-RELEASE onwards - I was hoping that wouldn't happen till 7.1. -- Mel
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