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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.0.5R ?
Date: 22 May 1995 17:28:29 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3ppl3p$ebn@fu-berlin.de>,
Thomas Graichen <graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>will there be an ALPHA, BETA, ... test phase before the "real" RELEASE as
>you said after the 2.0 problems ("we've learned from 2.0 and will do a long
>test phase next time ..." - or something like) or not - if not - why not ?
For 2.1, yes. In fact, the BETA period for 2.1 will be a full month.
I don't know if we'll do an ALPHA since 3 stages for FreeBSD releases
has seemed somewhat excessive (and unnecessary) in the past. It's turned
into more of an excluse to do a really poor ALPHA and I don't think it
serves anyone's purposes. I'd be happier to simply do a BETA that's
2.1 for all intents and purposes (e.g. what we'd be happy to call a
full release) and then do 2.1 RELEASE as 2.1 BETA + fixes for any bugs that
our users uncover.
2.0.5 will go out as a release candidate and then a full release 5 days
later. It's an interim release.
Jordan