RELENG_5_0 v. HEAD

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:42:25AM -0800, Evan Dower wrote:
> I've been tracking RELENG_5_0 pretty much since it existed, but I am 
> wondering now if it would be better to track -CURRENT via HEAD instead. 
> After all, with the semi-frozen status of HEAD, all knew commits should be 
> fairly conservative and the _general_ _ trend_ should at least be toward a 
> more stable product. I wonder if HEAD is actually a more stable product 
> than RELENG_5_0.

Sometimes is, sometimes isn't.  You have to be fairly careful to
upgrade at the right time based on commit activity and mailing list
traffic.

> Certainly it would be for anyone using the nvidia-driver, 
> since it is unsupported on RELENG_5_0. What are your thoughts?

It's just as unsupported on HEAD.

Kris
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