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[Ken Smith]

On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 18:22 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
>  > RELENG_7 isn't -STABLE yet
> 
> Uhm, are you sure?  In the past, whenever a new RELENG
> branch was created, it was implicitly the next -stable
> branch, because -current moved on to the next version
> number.  Did that policy change?

It is implicitly the *next* -stable but it's not there yet.  That's what
Simon was saying.

FreeBSD's development (specifically the CVS repository) is public.  But
the bottom line is that the RELENG_X branches are *development*
branches.  If we were a corporation those would be private to the
Developers.  As such the RELENG_X branches at times have nebulous
states, gray zones, etc.  We're in one such gray zone now.  If I needed
to come up with a name for RELENG_7 right now it would be what I set its
name to when I first branched it: 7.0-PRERELEASE.

It doesn't officially become -stable until there has been a release done
from it.

I've said this many times before.  There are lots of people out there
who use RELENG_X.  But strictly speaking that's a *development* branch.
There can be glitches while using it, mistakes do get made on it, etc.
We don't want to act like a private company, we don't want to hide the
development work.  BUT we *do* need to have RELENG_X as a development
tool and people using it need to realize that's exactly what it is.  The
RELENG_X_Y branches are what is meant for "general public consumption".

> If it did change, I'm curious to know what the version
> 7 branch is called right now (6 being -stable and 8
> being -current)?  I assume we do not have two -current
> branches at the same time, do we?

No change in any policies or anything like that.  What I'm describing
has been the status quo for a long time but people tend to forget or
never quite "get it" or ... so I'm sure you're not the only one thinking
this way.

-- 
                                                Ken Smith
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