The Old Way Was Better

[Jamie Bowden]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Doug Barton wrote:

> As for the rest of your post, it's all very interesting, but incredibly
> unlikely to happen. The creation of the RELENG_4_X branches solved the
> immediate need for a "stable branch plus security fixes." 5.x is still
> -current, and while we do need to be more careful with our marketing
> (and more careful with what goes into a 5.x release), massive branch
> renaming just isn't going to happen, nor is expanding the number of
> branches going to help.

Once -STABLE moves from 4.x to 5.x (so that the project is back on 5.x-R,
5-S, and 5-C), is STABLE once again going to BE stable?  It wasn't a bad
thing that the CVS tag reflected what the source you were checking out was
meant to be.  I fully understand that accomodations have been made since
two concurrent release tracks are the norm for right now, but having
things witheld from -stable until they've passed muster in -current in the
past was a very good thing.

Jamie Bowden

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