FreeBSD 6.0 and onwards

[Brooks Davis]

On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 03:04:42AM +0300, Toxa wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 04:38:21PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> > So the current plan is to branch RELENG_6 (aka 6-STABLE) sometime around
> > May or June 2005.  That will begin a 1-3 month freeze and stabilization
> > process for the 6.0 release.  After that is released, we will do 6.1,
> > 6.2 and onwards at likely 4 month intervals.  In May/June 2006 we'll
> > look at doing RELENG_7, or we might wait until Nov/Dec 2006 (12 months
> 
> Don't you think branching 6-STABLE (and, thus, getting 6.x RELEASEs)
> around June 2005 is too early for users which may be confused a bit with
> 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x releases. Now we know 4.x stands for "technologically
> outdated" but proven stability, and 5.x stands for new technology, new
> stable branch. In 2005, 4.x won't lost its actuality, 5.x will be in the
> mainstream (hopefully), and what new 6.x releases will be stands for?
> I think, there is no radically new technologies, any improvemens from
> 6-current could be MFC'ed to 5-stable, so why messing with 6.x releases
> so early?

6.x already contains a fair bit of work that would be inadvisable to
MFC.  If nothing else, the TTY renaming can't be merged to a STABLE
branch.

-- Brooks

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