Re: What is Stable

From: Ruslan Ermilov (ru_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 08/23/04

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To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>

    On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:56:20AM -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
    > On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 11:32:24PM -0500, AL Grant wrote:
    > > I am confused. Is 5.x stable now and 6.x current or is the latest
    > > stable release 4.10?
    >
    > Lots of people are. ;-)
    >
    > 5.x is not stable yet but we expect it will be after the 5.3 release.
    > The first BETA for 5.3 was released today. We don't expect people
    > to switch from 4.X to 5.X overnight, it will most likely take people
    > time to make the transition. Especially large sites. Because of
    > that we will continue to support 4.X for a while. Development
    > (mostly just bugfixes) will continue until 4.11 is released, at
    > which point development of 4.X will stop and it becomes an Errata
    > Branch (only *really* major bug fixes along with security fixes
    > will be applied).
    >
    > So, there will be an overlap of a few months where we have three
    > active development branches. At this point 6.X is current, 5.X
    > is "in transition" between being current and stable, and 4.X is
    > still considered stable. After the 5.3 release it is expected
    > 5.X will become stable. At that point I'm not sure what to call
    > 4.X since development won't have stopped completely but it will
    > still 'be there' for people who need time to make the jump to 5.X
    > as the new stable.
    >
    Can you clarify, what will be the policy of the RELENG_4 after it
    "becomes an Errata Branch"? Will it be passed to Security Officer,
    and no new featuress could be committed to this branch?

    Cheers, 

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Ruslan Ermilov
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