Re: Are releases of DragonFlyBSD time based or feature based

["Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Erik P. Skaalerud wrote:
> Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>
> > No. Matt will be tagging the tree from now on on a regular base with a
> > stable tag. You can use that one, which should give you a similar
> > experience than FreeBSD's RELENG_4 did. On the other hand, our -current
> > tree is normally pretty stable and try to warn ahead of or at the time of
> > major changes.
>
> Ok. Pretty pretty please.
>
> I beg you. DO NOT make a branch named "stable", when its really beta.
>
> After using FreeBSD for so many years and helping out newbies who bum 
> their boxes by using something that looked cool "hey look I got stable 
> in muh uname!!", I really really advise you (Matt) to use something that 
> doesnt look attractive as a branch name, Like "-BETA".
> That will keep the trigger-happy newbies away from using it.
>
> - Erik

I have to agree, and this is the impression I got from previous similar 
discussions on the other lists.

--Devon