On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 12:52:00AM +0200, 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?
RELENG_7 was forked in preperation for the upcoming 7.0 release. That meant -CURRENT could be unfrozen so that new features can be added. (And since the current -CURRENT will eventually lead up to an 8.0 release it is now called 8-CURRENT rather than 7-CURRENT.) Personally I would not consider RELENG_7 to be a real 'stable' branch until after 7.0 has been officially released (or at least not until the RELENG_7_0 release branch has been created and RELENG_7 been unfrozen.) > I.o.w. do we 2 current or 2 > stable branches now? We have many more than 2 stable branches: RELENG_6. RELENG_4, RELENG_3, RELENG_5, RELENG_2_2, etc. Most of them are no longer in active development, but you never know when some committer sees fit to backport something to an older branch. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
