Re: freebsd naming of releases

From: Simon L. Nielsen <simon_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 10:10:34 +0200
On 2005.04.03 08:39:43 +0100, Chris wrote:
> 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

"fooled into"??? I think the release announcements pretty clearly
stated what the releases were.  Of cause if people can't be bothered
to read that, then there is not really much else to do.

> 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.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen

Received on Sun Apr 03 2005 - 06:10:38 UTC

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