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

Michael Abbott michael at araneidae.co.uk
Fri Sep 15 14:47:01 PDT 2006


On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 08:46:57PM +0200, Martin Nilsson wrote:
>> Hans Lambermont wrote:
>> .. or just stop calling it STABLE and call it RELENG_6 instead

> That's a good idea, IMHO. When I started with FreeBSD I found the
> difference between the branch names and cvs tags confusing.

Let me second that.  I hadn't realised that STABLE==RELENG_n (where n is 
the current version number) until very recently, and I've seen the "STABLE 
isn't stable" thing crop up over and over again over the last few years, 
both on mailing lists and IRC.


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