[simon@FreeBSD.org: cvs commit: src/crypto/openssl/ssl ?d1_both.c ?dtls1.h ssl.h ssl_err.c]

[Doug Barton]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Oliver Fromme wrote:

> People often talk about either "-current" and "-stable",
> so was curious what RELENG_7 would be called right now.
> Obviously it's not called "-current", but (according to
> you and Simon) it's not called "-stable" either.

I have been making an effort in the recent past to refer to the branches 
by their branch names (RELENG_*) to avoid confusion. I am also of the mind 
that we should have mailing lists named after the branches as well, rather 
than going through the awkward transitions that you describe in this post. 
(Which is a long-winded way to say that I think your confusion is 
justified and understandable.)

I think this is going to be more prevalent in the time-based release world 
since we will soon have 3 different RELENG branches that could reasonably 
be called "-stable".

> Actually the often used terms "-current" and "-stable"
> are ambiguous and not really accurate.  E.g. someone
> talks about "the -stable branch" and you have no idea
> which one of the several RELENG_* ones he means.  It's
> probably better to always use the CVS names or the
> branch name (from sys/conf/newvers.sh).

Voila! GMTA :)

Doug

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