12 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-stableRe: 2.2.5-stable is now in BETA test.| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Jordan K. Hubbard | Mar 9, 1998 4:25 pm | |
| Chad R. Larson | Mar 9, 1998 4:30 pm | |
| Matt Behrens | Mar 9, 1998 5:23 pm | |
| Richard Wackerbarth | Mar 9, 1998 5:59 pm | |
| Jordan K. Hubbard | Mar 9, 1998 6:01 pm | |
| Jordan K. Hubbard | Mar 9, 1998 6:11 pm | |
| Matt Behrens | Mar 9, 1998 6:49 pm | |
| Satoshi Asami | Mar 9, 1998 6:56 pm | |
| Jordan K. Hubbard | Mar 9, 1998 7:00 pm | |
| Rodney W. Grimes | Mar 10, 1998 7:51 am | |
| Rodney W. Grimes | Mar 10, 1998 7:53 am | |
| M. Warner Losh | Mar 10, 1998 1:19 pm |
| Subject: | Re: 2.2.5-stable is now in BETA test. | |
|---|---|---|
| From: | Richard Wackerbarth (rk...@dataplex.net) | |
| Date: | Mar 9, 1998 5:59:17 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-stable | |
At 7:23 PM -0600 3/9/98, Matt Behrens wrote:
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Chad R. Larson wrote:
Ummm... I probably won't be the only one who asks, "Should that subject line reference 2.2.6?
It's 2.2.5-STABLE until 3.0 moves into STABLE. 2.2.6-RELEASE, sure! 2.2.6-BETA, maybe. But not 2.2.6-STABLE. (:
The status of the 2.2 branch is not a function of the status of the 3.0 branch. 2.1 is still a "STABLE" branch.
Frankly, I wish that people would think of "DEVELOPMENT", "ALPHA", "BETA", "STABLE", etc. as descriptions of the state of a development tree rather than the name of it.
Once a branch reaches "stability", is SHOULD remain that way. Unfortunately, some enhancements/corrections have the undesirable effect of temporarily destablizing things. However, that is a risk that you take in grabbing the head of the branch rather than some point that has received enough testing to validate its stability.
In particular, we are now in a beta test phase anticipating the 2.2.6 release.
mkdir FreeBSD ; cd FreeBSD mkdir FreeBSD-2.1 populate it mkdir FreeBSD-2.2 populate it mkdir FreeBSD-3.0 populate it
ln -s FreeBSD-2.2 FreeBSD-STABLE ln -s FreeBSD-3.0 FreeBSD-DEVELOPMENT
ln -s FreeBSD-2.2 FreeBSD-2.2.6-BETA
Richard Wackerbarth
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