Re: Current stable tag slip status

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sarunas Vancevicius wrote:

> On 10:05, Sat 26 Mar 05, Bill Hacker wrote:
>
> > STABLE releases = DFSMMMYY
> > CURRENT releases = DFCMMMDDYY
> > EXPERIMENTAL or testing versions = DFXMMMDDYY.nn
>
>
> > Bill
>
>
> I think most people not familiar with this naming convention will
> get confused.
>
> E.G: a person who just read about DragonFly and wants to try it out.
> Goes to one of the mirrors, and is not sure which iso to download,
> and downloads the wrong one, say EXPERIMENTAL.  
>
> Boots it and horrible things start to happen (say, gets a panic
> while booting).  Now, this person, might stay away from DragonFly,
> and spread his unpleasant experience along the community he came
> from.
>
> So IMO its better to keep the naming as simple as possible.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
> Sarunas

Agree that - problem already exists with folks thinking
'CURRENT' will always be better than 'STABLE'.

But I had in mind that 'Experimental' would NOT be 'published'
for download.  Rather - in an accessable, but not so obvious area
where those working on new architectures and platform problems
might share.

Bill