On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 18:22 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > RELENG_7 isn't -STABLE yet > > Uhm, are you sure? In the past, whenever a new RELENG > branch was created, it was implicitly the next -stable > branch, because -current moved on to the next version > number. Did that policy change? It is implicitly the *next* -stable but it's not there yet. That's what Simon was saying. FreeBSD's development (specifically the CVS repository) is public. But the bottom line is that the RELENG_X branches are *development* branches. If we were a corporation those would be private to the Developers. As such the RELENG_X branches at times have nebulous states, gray zones, etc. We're in one such gray zone now. If I needed to come up with a name for RELENG_7 right now it would be what I set its name to when I first branched it: 7.0-PRERELEASE. It doesn't officially become -stable until there has been a release done from it. I've said this many times before. There are lots of people out there who use RELENG_X. But strictly speaking that's a *development* branch. There can be glitches while using it, mistakes do get made on it, etc. We don't want to act like a private company, we don't want to hide the development work. BUT we *do* need to have RELENG_X as a development tool and people using it need to realize that's exactly what it is. The RELENG_X_Y branches are what is meant for "general public consumption". > If it did change, I'm curious to know what the version > 7 branch is called right now (6 being -stable and 8 > being -current)? I assume we do not have two -current > branches at the same time, do we? No change in any policies or anything like that. What I'm describing has been the status quo for a long time but people tend to forget or never quite "get it" or ... so I'm sure you're not the only one thinking this way. -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith_at_cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |
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