Why RELENG_9 branch is labeled as PRERELEASE and freebsd.org says FreeBSD is currently at 9.1-RC2 ?

[jb]

Yuri <yuri <at> rawbw.com> writes:

> 
> On 10/28/2012 07:17, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote:
> > RELENG_9 should be called 9-STABLE, if you want 9.1 use RELENG_9_1
> 
> Hm, if they wanted to keep RELENG_9 as "stable" 9.X branch, why then 
> 9.1-PRERELEASE is there? Is PRERELEASE considered more stable than RC? 
> This looks strange to me.
> 
> Yuri

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1/sys/conf/newvers.sh?view=log

Go back to Revision 227495, read log text, click View and scroll down to see
TYPE="FreeBSD"
34 	REVISION="9.0"
BRANCH="PRERELEASE"
Then back off and move the log up by repeating as above.
Hopefully you understand his drill :-)
jb