On Sat Mar 21, 2020 at 6:23 PM PST, Paco Esteban wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2020, j3s wrote:
>
> > On Sat Mar 21, 2020 at 8:59 AM PST, Theodore Wynnychenko wrote:
> > > But, this got me thinking (I am better with schedules): What is a
> > > reasonable amount of time between updates of -current?
> > 
> > > Just looking for opinions.
> > 
> > My opinion is at least twice a month if you're following -current.
> > 
> > With that said, People's opinions will vary, and unfortunately you're
> > unlikely to find consensus here.
> > 
> > -current is meant to be experimental, and if possible I'd recommend
> > following the stable releases instead - that way you're on a 6 month
> > schedule.
>
> Some of us use -current daily even for work stuff and rely on it, so
> I would not call it experimental.

>From https://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html

>  Aggressive changes are sometimes pushed in this branch, and
>  complications can arise when building the latest code or upgrading
>  from a previous point in time.

Sounds experimental to me, but like I said, do what you like.

If you don't need to run on -current, just stick to the main releases,
that's my point.

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