x.0 RELASE isn't for production.

[Pavel Timofeev]

2011/10/15 George Kontostanos <gkontos.mail at gmail.com>

> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Pavel Timofeev <timp87 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > That's what most people think.
>
> > I think we hurry. Imo, BETA/RC period for !NEW! STABLE branch should be
> > longer. Six months, for example.
> > New STABLE branch is very important!
>
> IMHO different OS releases (Unix or not) are usually at the state of
> FreeBSD current regarding stability. FreeBSD late BETA and early RC
> are usually very stable. Therefore the approximate one month period
> between the first beta and the release is adequate time.
>
> Many users are reluctant to follow stable because they have to go
> through the wolrd && kernel procedure. Since freebsd-update exists as
> a means of binary upgrading a system through releases, I don't think
> that it would be a bad idea to be able to use is for stable as well.
> Let's assume that we would have monthly minor releases something like
> 9.0.1, 9.0.2 etc.   That could ease the fear of .0 release.
>
It's not bad idea.


>
> This is coming from someone who is using current all the time for
> workstations and stable for production servers and never uses
> freebsd-update!
>
> Best Regards
>
> --
> George Kontostanos
> aisecure.net
>