> > > > To sum it all up is there any difference between the branches? > > Yes. We hope that people like you will help us by participating in the > testing of potential releases _before_ they go out as releases, not > _afterwards_. > > Sitting around doing nothing and then complaining after the fact > doesn't help anyone, least of all yourself. >
This isn't meant in a bad way, but let me share with you my experiences. Before 3.0 was released, I said several times "Hey, NFS got a lot worse on -CURRENT. Is anyone looking at this?" and got several replies of "Duh, this is -CURRENT. Don't whine about it. If you're trying to use this in a production environment, you're crazy." After 3.0 was released, I said "Hey, 3.0 got released, and NFS was still broken", to which I got "Why didn't you bug us about this before the release?" and/or "Why didn't you test this before release?" I understand NFS is a 'special' problem, but for those of us not in the trenches coding, I think the '3-level' system would be better. -CURRENT for those who are coding, -BETA for people like me to test things and bring up what broke, and -RELEASE for everyone else. I honestly don't know when to bring up things like that, now. :) Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message