What is Stable

[Geert Hendrickx]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 09:28:46AM -0400, Charles Ulrich wrote:
> Pete French said:
> >> still considered stable.  After the 5.3 release it is expected
> >> 5.X will become stable.  At that point I'm not sure what to call
> >
> > Is that the point at which this list becomes the correct place to ask
> > questions about 5.X on as opposed to current ?
> 
> One way to know without keeping track of the details of release engineering is
> to just bear in mind that the day on which the first 5.x-STABLE release is
> announced on the freebsd.org webpage is also the day that this list becomes
> appropriate for 5.x questions. I figure that's a pretty safe indicator.

Then where should questions about 4.x go?  I'm not upgrading yet, and
may not be for a while (at least not for all machines).  

GH