8.0-stable/releng?

[Andreas Tobler]

Robert Watson wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Andreas Tobler wrote:
> 
>> for the record, am I correct that the upcoming 8.0 branch is like this:
>>
>> svn ls svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/ .. 8/ ?
>>
>> And not under 'releng'?
>>
>> I'm a bit confused about naming conventions, releng vs. stable. I have no 
>> problem with either, but which one is the one to be used for BETA-3/RC?
>>
>> Is head becoming 9.0 soon?
> 
> Existing documentation about branch naming (-CURRENT, -STABLE, -RELEASE, etc) 
> remains essentially valid.  The primary change of note is that in Subversion, 
> we now include "stable" in the branch name for -STABLE branches, rather than 
> using "releng" for that as well.  The following should apply:
> 
> base/head			- -CURRENT
> base/stable/X			- X-STABLE branches
> base/releng/X.Y			- X.Y release engineering branches
> base/release/X.Y.Z		- X.Y.Z release tag
> 
> stable/8 has been created, but neither releng/8.0 nor release/8.0.0 have been 
> created.
> 
> Because the release process involves some non-atomic windows, things are 
> currently potentially confusing -- uname -a on head and stable/8 both report 
> BETA2, and the two branches are being kept in lock-step in the lead-up to 
> BETA3, after which point the brannches will diverge.  I'm not quite sure when 
> head will start calling itself 9-CURRENT, but probably pretty soon.

Thank you Robert! That was the thing/explanation I was looking for.

Andreas