freebsd naming of releases

[Charles Swiger]

On Mar 28, 2005, at 11:44 PM, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
>> I know that there is some explanation for the terms at the site but 
>> why should terms be used which need an extra eplanation?
>
> I find that the terms "alpha", "beta" and "production" do not quite 
> fit the FreeBSD development paradigm. (Is RELENG_5 beta or 
> production?)

It's beta.  -CURRENT (or RELENG_6) is alpha, and production is now at
RELENG_5_3 and/or RELENG_4_11.

During the release cycle, RELENG_5 will be frozen and tagged, and for a 
brief time will have the same contents as the newly created RELENG_5_4 
branch (call it "gamma" or "production"), but after the release is out 
and RELENG_5 is unfrozen, it will go back to being "beta".

-- 
-Chuck