Disappointed

[Nikolas Britton]

On 4/6/06, [LoN]Kamikaze <LoN_Kamikaze at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>
> Alexey Karagodov wrote:
> > hi.
> > i think, this unstablity happaning just because developers trying to make
> > two systems at one time, one is 6.0 and another 7.0 current and they
> > supporting old version, lower then 6.0
> > i want to ask developers, why you developing new system, 7.0, if you don't
> > finish old, 6.0 ?!
> > finish 6.0, make it work, and upgrade it to 7.0 and to 8.0 and to 9.0 and so
> > on ...
> > what so new and revolutionary in 7.0 in comparison with 6.0 ?!
> > to use your system i must be a DEVELOPER, but i don't have so much time! i
> > don't want to develope! i want to use, i want to help you with some advise (
> > e.g. what feature to add, what feature to change etc), i can and i want to
> > share some of my hardware to feet your needs, make a mirror, make a test
> > server/workstation/notebook/PDA etc. i'm not an freebsd developer. i'm just
> > admin and a user.
> > your system is most greatest i ever seen. another wonderful system is
> > SOLARIS.
> > but your's is so unstable ...
>
> All this is described in many places. It all comes down to this: if you
> don't want to be a developer, JUST USE THE RELEASE BRANCH. That means
> Releng_6_0 for now.
>
> Stable only means compatible to previous versions of the same branch.
> Not that the system is stable.

Maybe they/we should change the name of -STABLE to -APISTABLE or
-ABISTABLE. I've always had to go out of my way to explain what
-STABLE is to newbies that assumed it was stable....  changing this
name should keep them off the developer branches. oh and we should
change -CURRENT to -THISWILLBREAKYOURSYSTEM for all those Gentoo Linux
type people. :-)

1 bad experience is equal to 10 good ones.


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