Seeking advice for new server: 4.8-REL vs. 4.9-BETA

[Doug Poland]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:11:05AM -0700, Scott Schappell wrote:
> Doug Poland wrote:
> 
> >I guess I have some confusion between what's -STABLE and -RELEASE and
> >when one becomes the other.  Better read up on it.
> > 
> >
> The way I understand it is there are three "branches"
> 
> CURRENT - the cutting edge source, use at your own risk, etc (5.x). This 
> is a branch that is in development.
> STABLE - this is the development branch for a current dot release. For 
> example 4.9 right now is in the STABLE  branch and has gone through a 
> certain level of testing in CURRENT.  4.9 right now is PRERELEASE, but 
> it's still considered STABLE. Since it's still a dvelopment branch, it's 
> prone to bugs (but not as many as CURRENT) as used primarily for 
> contributors to the project or folks who want to stay as absolutely 
> current in their current RELENG version (4).
> RELEASE - this is a branch that is the most stable, it's only updated to 
> fix security or system issues.
> 
That's a good explaination

> If you're tagging *default tag release=. (that's a literal . not a 
> punctuation mark) then you're tracking CURRENT (5.x)
> If you're tagging *default tag release=RELENG_4 you're tracking 4.x STABLE
> If you're tagging *default tag release=RELENG_4_8 you're tracking 4.8 
> RELEASE (security branch) - this is what I'm following in my cvsupfile.
> 
Ah, makes more sense when you show it this way.

> Again, this is how I see it after reading the handbook, and I may be a 
> bit off the mark :).
> 
Thanks again.

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Regards,
Doug