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.