Re: freebsd naming of releases

Well you cannot change how people think and act, rather then changing
the way thousands of people think I think its better to change how the
naming is done on non stable releases, what happened with 5.x was that
it was named to get more people to use and as such more testing but
they were fooled into thinking it was based on stable code and so we
seen mass datacentres and individual users using 5.1 and 5.2 for
production use, then when 5.3 did the library version bump lots of
issues arose from it because so many people were using 5.1 and 5.2.

Chris

On Apr 3, 2005 2:42 AM, Holger Kipp <hk_at_intserv.int1.b.intern> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 04:58:21AM +0100, Chris wrote:
> > After what happened with 5.x releases would it be a good idea to name
> 
> No, it isn't. Nothing happened with 5.x releases.
> 
> > current releases different.  eg. 6.1-dev 6.2-dev instead of
> > 6.1-release.
> 
> We had this type of discussion already several times. Search the
> archive for corresponding posts. This discussion is pointless and
> only wastes bandwith.
> 
> The real problem is that people do not read and/or think.
> A different naming scheme won't change that.
> 
> Regards,
> Holger Kipp
>