From 33e21c8a1bccf284db74480c4408fa4d5d772618 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gabor Pali Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 02:18:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update the FAQ: - Change the frequency of snapshots from a day to a month - Fix a missing closing parenthesis - Add snapshot site http://snapshots.us.freebsd.org - Generalize the paragraph about development branches - Add an 18 months release interval for major versions and 8 months for minor versions - Fix link for the PR query interface PR: docs/115000 Submitted by: Ben Kaduk Reviewed by: danger, trhodes Approved by: gabor (mentor) --- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml | 32 ++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml index 0ffdb54808..3835909159 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml @@ -368,11 +368,11 @@ groups on the -CURRENT mailing list may be treated with contempt. - Every day, Every month, snapshot releases are made based on the current state of the - -CURRENT and -STABLE branches. Distributions of the - occasional snapshot are made available. The goals + -CURRENT and -STABLE branches. + The goals behind each snapshot release are: @@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ To preserve a fixed reference point for the code in question, just in case we break something really badly later. (Although CVS normally prevents anything horrible - like this happening :) + like this happening.) @@ -411,8 +411,11 @@ Snapshot releases are directly available from snapshot. - Snapshots are generated, on the average, daily for - all actively developed branches. + Official snapshots are generated each month on a regular basis for + all actively developed branches. There are also + daily snapshot builds of the popular &arch.i386; + and &arch.amd64 branches, hosted on + . @@ -433,12 +436,12 @@ only well-tested bug fixes and other small incremental enhancements. FreeBSD-CURRENT, on the other hand, has been one unbroken line since 2.0 was released, leading - towards 6.2-RELEASE and beyond. Just before 6.0-RELEASE, the - 6-STABLE branch was created, and - &os.current; became 7-CURRENT. For more detailed information, + towards &rel.current;-RELEASE and beyond. For more detailed information on branches see FreeBSD Release Engineering: - Creating the Release Branch. + Creating the Release Branch, the status of the + branches and the upcoming release schedule can be found on the Release Engineering Information page. The 2.2-STABLE branch was retired with the release of 2.2.8. The 3-STABLE branch has ended with the release of 3.5.1, the @@ -467,8 +470,9 @@ - The &a.re; releases a new version of FreeBSD about every - four months, on average. Release dates are announced well in + The &a.re; releases a new major version of &os; about every + 18 months and a new minor version about every + 8 months, on average. Release dates are announced well in advance, so that the people working on the system know when their projects need to be finished and tested. A testing period precedes each release, in order to ensure @@ -533,7 +537,7 @@ - Snapshot releases are made daily for the + Snapshot releases are made monthly for the -CURRENT and -STABLE branch, these being of service purely to bleeding-edge testers and @@ -562,7 +566,7 @@ The Problem Report database of all user change requests may be queried by using our web-based PR + url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?query"> query interface.