On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 03:41:04PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Hans Lambermont wrote:
>
> >Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> >
> >>Stable is a misnomer that harms FreeBSD somewhat.
> >
> >I agree.
> >
> >>A promoter of FreeBSD I know has long encouraged people to upgrade
> >>from release to stable. Some don't & won't realise Stable is Not
> >>necessarily Stable, & may get burnt. Much of the world speaks English
> >>only as a 2nd language. They won't benefit from the double trouble of
> >>foreign + weird BSD geek speak: "Stable isn't Stable ? Yes or No !"
> >>"It's stable, but it's OK to crash ? - I'll go Linux !"
> >>
> >>Imagine a boat labelled Stable: It sinks. The designers claim: "Tough!
> >>We left the Application Interface (routes to bars & toilets) stable,
> >>but changed other stuff. Hey ! Stable never meant Stable !
> >>
You've got a good point. Wouldn't be be best to merge
the mythical last-bug from x-BETA+ into x and have release-x
be the (abs) most stable *for that release*?
I have generally run -STABLE ((now/then -RELEASE)); it is to
the developers' credit [[all get 5 stars from here!]] that
-STABLE has run so flawlessly until now. ---Yeah, I am
speaking only for myself; what else :-).
>
> Or rename it what it is:
>
> 6.x-BETA
>
> Where x == the next -RELEASE ...
>
> But, I'm just curious here ... for all of the talk going around about this
> whole issue, how many ppl have truly ever been bitten by an unstable
> -STABLE? And for those that have, how long did it take to get help from a
> developer to get it fixed?
Indeed. This snafu didn't bite me because I was at 5.4... and
right, hat's off and cheers for Pawel Dawidek. Everyone shouldbe
as consciencious --it'd be a vastly better world (.)
gary
>
> In the case that started this thread, it seems to be that the developer
> fixed his mistake fairly quickly, which is what one would expect ... it
> shouldn't be so much that he *broke* -STABLE (shit happens, do you want
> your money back?), but it should be 'was he around to reverse his mistake
> in a reasonable amount of time?' ... ?
>
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Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix
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