Drop "New Technology" Moniker

[Joshua Tinnin]

On Saturday 06 November 2004 06:18 pm, "Jason C. Wells" 
<jcw at highperformance.net> wrote:
> I have said this in the past.  Now seems like a pertinent time to
> express this opinion again.
>
> Please let -STABLE be stable and -CURRENT be the development branch.
> Please do not call anything from the -CURRENT branch a -RELEASE. 
> Please do not label code as a "new technology release" as a notional
> label.  Please either release the code or don't.
>
> Instead of waiting for a "dot-oh" release to know that the next major
> version of FreeBSD is ready for prime time, users wait for a "this
> time we really mean it" release announcement.  The difference is
> mostly semantic. The old way was more rigorous.  I like the old way
> better.

FWIW, a recent post to -current explained some of this, and also 
mentioned that future versioning will be time-based rather than 
feature-based (like OpenBSD), so this sort of issue shouldn't come up 
again.

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?418C0EED.1060301

- jt