Recent branching of CURRENT
Kris Kennaway
kris at FreeBSD.org
Fri Oct 12 16:15:48 PDT 2007
Mel wrote:
> On Friday 12 October 2007 23:15:32 Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> Just out of curiosity, why did I fail to notice the branching of
>>> RELENG_7 and 8-CURRENT? I'm subscribed to -stable, -current and
>>> -announce.
>> Because it's an administrative change that is just a normal part of the
>> release engineering process. i.e. 7.0 is not released etc.
>
> And RELENG_7 is not considered the 'stable' branch yet, but 8-CURRENT is just
> forked for development of entirely new features? I.o.w. do we 2 current or 2
> stable branches now?
Those are just names, don't worry too much about it. RELENG_7 will be
the start of a new -STABLE branch once it is released.
Kris
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