Paul Goyette <p...@whooppee.com> writes: > On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Thomas Mueller wrote: > >> How do users of 8.99.51 and earlier 8.99.x decide whether to go with >> 9.99.1 or 9.0_BETA? >> >> I am on >> >> NetBSD amelia2 8.99.51 NetBSD 8.99.51 (NetBSD-HEAD amd64.nb899-20190723) #1: >> Tue Jul 23 13:35:29 GMT 2019 >> root@amelia2:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/SANDY7 amd64 >> >> as I type this; also built i386 from the same source tree. > > If you were previously on 8.99.x then you were tracking -current and > not any particular release. IMHO you should now track the 9.99.x > series, as that is the new -current!
I would say that the most helpful thing to do to help the NetBSD community is to switch to netbsd-9, and test it, and report issues. Then when it's released, you can go back to current if you feel like it. > If you intend to deploy a stable 9.0 release (rather than tracking > -current) I would recommend installing 9.0-BETA to help us make the > release as "solid" as possible. Sure, but even people who don't need to deploy stable can help.