Re: Nomenclature Issue

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:

> :wbh wrote @ Fri, 08 Apr 2005 21:30:02 +0800:
> :> Folks,
> :> 
> :> The dragonflybsd.org 'downloads' web page seems to have been updated w/r 
> :> to new nomenclature for HEAD, AKA DEVELOPMENT, PREVIEW, and RELEASE, but 
> :> the (few) actual http and ftp repositories I have checked still have the 
> :> old 'STABLE' etc. terminology, at least for iso's and snapshots.  (Some 
> :> mirrors are *way* out of date also..)
> :
> :What do you actually think the mirrors should change ?

Apologies - trying to catch both points at once -.

The mirrors, if 'mirrors' they are to be, should reflect the upstream 
exactly and remain current.
Some do not / are not.

> :I don't think we should rename old files.
> :
> :Andy

I had thought of linking old name and new so available either way.. BUT.

>     After USENIX (and after the download rush is over) I am going to 
>     reorganize the iso-images directory.  I'll probably remove all the old
>     'stable' ISOs or move them into an 'old-images' directory or something
>     like that.
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

ACK. That's a better way.

They should be available for record and research, before/after comparison,
reminders when a developer needs to backtrack how something was done.

If it can be done, there will be those who are doing fresh-installs of 
1.0 two years
hence, confusing the living aitch out of the community when they ask
for help with a problem long-since resolved, then wingeing that 
DragonFlyBSD is
out of date compared to {whatever}.

Best that such not be at all easy to do, and certainly not out of 
accident or confusion.

Bill