Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 11:23:30 -0500 From: Christopher Schulte <christopher@schulte.org> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Releases Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20010409111054.00b18008@pop.schulte.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0104100342440.38514-100000@xeon.int.nz.freeb sd.org> References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010409101533.00ace930@pop.schulte.org>
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At 03:45 AM 4/10/2001 +1200, Dan Langille wrote: >Give meaningful and widely used names to things which people are familiar >with. -CURRENT fits all those requirements. > > I'm not as hot about the BETA designation, but generally feel it should > > be left alone simply because it's documented, and thus should NOT be a > > problem. > >By this designation, we could call a brake a clutch and get away with it >because it's all documented. The problem is not with the documentation. >It's with the name. Documentation is not the only factor. The name was chosen for a *reason*, to convey a point. It's choice was not arbitrary. And it's since been accepted by the development and administrative community. Question being: Now, are we to a point where that accepted name needs to be reevaluated for the sake of general consensus, need or desire. That's the real question, IMHO. --chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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