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List:       dragonfly-users
Subject:    Re: Are releases of DragonFlyBSD time based or feature based
From:       "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell () sitetronics ! com>
Date:       2004-09-27 12:41:05
Message-ID: 41580A51.30905 () sitetronics ! com
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Erik P. Skaalerud wrote:
> Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 
> > No. Matt will be tagging the tree from now on on a regular base with a
> > stable tag. You can use that one, which should give you a similar
> > experience than FreeBSD's RELENG_4 did. On the other hand, our -current
> > tree is normally pretty stable and try to warn ahead of or at the time of
> > major changes.
> Ok. Pretty pretty please.
> 
> I beg you. DO NOT make a branch named "stable", when its really beta.
> 
> After using FreeBSD for so many years and helping out newbies who bum 
> their boxes by using something that looked cool "hey look I got stable 
> in muh uname!!", I really really advise you (Matt) to use something that 
> doesnt look attractive as a branch name, Like "-BETA".
> That will keep the trigger-happy newbies away from using it.
> 
> - Erik
> 
I have to agree, and this is the impression I got from previous similar 
discussions on the other lists.

--Devon




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