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Re: Stable tag will be slipped Sunday and release engineering will begin Monday


From: Max Okumoto <okumoto@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 22:30:24 -0800

Matthew Dillon wrote:
:Okay, I am proud to claim the role of the least educated and the most amateurish
:of all DFly groupies, so I will ask the painfully stupid questions :o)
:
:I've been following the long and confusing thread about what the various tags
:should be named (and why) and I am hereby declaring my total confusion.
:
:I've been following FreeBSD-CURRENT for about ten years, and yet I still don't
:understand the meaning of their tag names -- so, should I be surprised that I
:don't understand the DFly names either?
:...

Basically it comes down to the problem of identifying what kernel and world someone is running. In FreeBSD's case they run parallel releases
of both their 'stable' and 'current' series. The two major series (stable and current) have their own CVS branches (current is just on the
CVS HEAD). Each release made within the series also has its own branch.
To make things more confusing, the -RELEASE designation only applies to
the actual release while the -STABLE designation applies to continued development on the stable branch.


DragonFly just has one series. i.e. no parallel development is occuring.
When we release (starting with this upcoming release) we create a branch
for the release. Only bug fixes are allowed to be committed to a
release branch... no new features.


    As of this upcoming release, our tags are going to be named based on
    the scheme Chris Pressey came up with (the one that got a lot of positive
    responses on the lists).  We will have three tag names:

DEVELOPMENT

This represents the absolute bleeding edge head of the CVS tree.
When Max commits yet another rearrangement of the Make variable
handling module, or Joerg rearranges the sound drivers, this is where it goes :-)


PREVIEW

	This is a slip tag (not a branch) that we synchronize with the head
	of the tree from time to time (just like I did a few days ago).  It
	represents near-bleeding-edge but likely-to-not-blow-up-in-your-face
	work.

RELEASE+subversions

	This will be a branch tag.  e.g. representing an official release.
	So, for example, the upcoming release will be called
	DragonFly 1.2.0-RELEASE (the tag name itself will be something more
	compressed).

Commits made to a release branch will automatically bump a subversion, e.g. 1.2.0, 1.2.1, ... 1.2.75. Again, only bug fixes
would be committed to a release branch. So someone running a
release who reports a bug might tell us that is is running 1.2.25,
which gives us a darn good idea exactly what the state of his
system is.

One question which was not stated, but should be answered is what will trigger the creation of a FELEASE? Did we just feel like it, or is it because USENIX was comming up :-)

Max




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