freebsd naming of releases
Charles Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Tue Mar 29 09:52:28 PST 2005
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
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