5.x discussions should migrate to freebsd-stable

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Nov 5 13:41:40 PST 2004


On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 07:23:31AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> All,
> 
> Now that 5.3 is about to be released (really, I mean it this time!) and
> 5.x is considered -STABLE, further 5.x discussions and bug reports
> should migrate over to the freebsd-stable mailing list.  I know that
> after 4+ years, there is probably a lot of sentimental attachment to
> freebsd-current, and some of you probably have never seen a branch go
> stable yet, but just like watching your kids graduate and go to college,
> it's time to accept that our baby has grown up =-)
> 
> There are already a number of differences between the two branches that
> make it hard to distill bug reports (ULE and GEOM, for example), so
> this should be seen as a way to help continue to stabilize 5.x and also
> get ready for 6.0.

Ideally, developers should subscribe to -stable so that bug reports
don't fall on deaf ears.

Kris
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