ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

[hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)]

On 15 September 2006, at 11:16, Julian H. Stacey wrote:

>
>
> Stable is a misnomer that harms FreeBSD somewhat.  A promoter of
> FreeBSD I know has long encouraged people to upgrade from release
> to stable. Some don't & won't realise Stable is Not necessarily
> Stable, & may get burnt.  Much of the world speaks English only as
> a 2nd language.  They won't benefit from the double trouble of
> foreign + weird BSD geek speak:  "Stable isn't Stable ?  Yes or No !"
> "It's stable, but it's OK to crash ?  - I'll go Linux !"
>
> Imagine a boat labelled Stable: It sinks. The designers claim:
> "Tough! We left the Application Interface  (routes to bars & toilets)
> stable, but changed other stuff.   Hey ! Stable never meant Stable !

This is the perfect explanation. Thank you for putting what I am  
trying to say in words so well. :-)
>
> It'd be some work to eradicate the misnomer, but the name's perhaps
> less entrenched than one might guess, eg:
> 	ftp ftp.freebsd.org
> 	cd /pub/FreeBSD
> 	dir
> 	lrwxr-xr-x   1 ftpuser  ftpusers        19 Mar 24 14:58 FreeBSD- 
> stable -> branches/4.0-stable
> 	cd  FreeBSD-stable
> 	550 No such directory.
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hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)

<svinx> yknow when you go to a party, and everyones hooked up except  
one guy and one girl
<svinx> and so they look at each other like.. do we have to?
<svinx> intel & nvidia must be lookin at each other like that right now


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