The Old Way Was Better

[Derik Wilson]

By the way, sorry for the nasty spelling.  LOL!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derik Wilson" <dwilson32 at kc.rr.com>
To: <freebsd-chat at freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: The Old Way Was Better


> Like a sid a long time ago.  I am a freeBSD newb so as you can guess I
like
> to learn all I can about freeBSD and anything else for that matter,
however,
> at the moment, all I see are people bickering about something that they
can
> no longer control.  The release of freeBSD 5.x.  This doesn't help.  Let's
> find a way to learn from this instead of firing opinions at each other
about
> how we think one release is better than the other.
>
> Sorry if I am stepping over my boundries but can we talk about the good
> things that cam from the new release and maybe some problems that can be
> addressed (but not in an offensive manner.)  Debates are good when
> controlled and guided.
>
> Thanks all!  Keep us newbies alive!
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Doug Barton" <DougB at freebsd.org>
> To: "Jamie Bowden" <ragnar at sysabend.org>
> Cc: "Michel Talon" <talon at lpthe.jussieu.fr>; <freebsd-chat at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 6:20 PM
> Subject: Re: The Old Way Was Better
>
>
> > On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Jamie Bowden wrote:
> >
> > > 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?
> >
> > We are delaying the branch in -current until we're reasonably confident
> > that the thing is stable enough to use in a production system. Of
> > course, as soon as we declare it "stable" then the number of users will
> > go up dramatically, and more bugs will be found. This is inevitable.
> >
> > Doug
> >
> > -- 
> >
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