Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 05:49:53 +1200 (NZST) From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Releases Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0104100547050.38514-100000@xeon.int.nz.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20010409102526S.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > 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. > > That's a nice pat answer, but the problem is that for every value of > "name" we propose, somebody comes forward and says "But that confuses > me." We can't call it BETA, we can't call it STABLE, we can't call it > RC, we can't call it PRERELEASE, because each and every one of those > have had push-back from people who said it would conflict with > previous definitions they hold dear. Given that, chances are > excellent that any other halfway logical names we come up with will > suffer from the same problem. Just because the problem is difficult to solve does not mean it can not be or should not be solved. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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