The Old Way Was Better

[Doug Barton]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Jamie Bowden wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Doug Barton wrote:
>
> > As for the rest of your post, it's all very interesting, but incredibly
> > unlikely to happen. The creation of the RELENG_4_X branches solved the
> > immediate need for a "stable branch plus security fixes." 5.x is still
> > -current, and while we do need to be more careful with our marketing
> > (and more careful with what goes into a 5.x release), massive branch
> > renaming just isn't going to happen, nor is expanding the number of
> > branches going to help.
>
> Once -STABLE moves from 4.x to 5.x (so that the project is back on 5.x-R,
> 5-S, and 5-C), is STABLE once again going to BE stable?

We are delaying the branch in -current until we're reasonably confident
that the thing is stable enough to use in a production system. Of
course, as soon as we declare it "stable" then the number of users will
go up dramatically, and more bugs will be found. This is inevitable.

Doug

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