Timeline for What's our policy on questions regarding unreleased code?
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| Sep 5, 2012 at 19:49 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | @MDMarra multiple bits in some cases, and "HEAD" (whatever's in CVS) in OpenBSD's case (Canadian FREAKS!) - but yes. Your edit addresses my concern (in many ways better than my answer did) -- it's the intent that something go into production that matters (i.e. "Just because they distributed a CD of Release Candidate 1 doesn't mean we think you should be putting it on mission-critical systems") | |
| Sep 5, 2012 at 17:12 | history | edited | MDMarra | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 5, 2012 at 17:02 | comment | added | MDMarra | @voretaq7 I don't know a lot about the *BSD community, but surely releases can't be a whole lot different than other *nix ones. Regardless of what the BSD community calls it, I assume that one single set of bits is considered the "production" code for a given release (analogous to Linux stable repos). Is this not the case? | |
| Sep 5, 2012 at 16:36 | comment | added | Chopper3 | @voretaq7 I use OEL and get kernel support - but I know what you mean ;) | |
| Sep 5, 2012 at 16:32 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | True, but FreeBSD (as an example) issues Alphas, Betas and Release Candidates prior to cutting an official OS release -- those are "on the cusp" (often there's no change between the last RC and the production release), widely distributed, and "supported" the same way any FreeBSD release is, but I wouldn't run one in production... | |
| Sep 5, 2012 at 16:28 | comment | added | MDMarra | @voretaq7 This isn't meant to address whether or not something already released is valid for the site, but rather when something that is on the cusp of release is valid. In the case of the Linux kernel, for example, it's "released" when Linus commits it to Stable, isn't it? Most "free software" is in unstable or testing one day, and then stable the next. Since there isn't need for marketing fanfare, this is pretty cut and dry. | |
| Sep 5, 2012 at 16:23 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | What about Linux (the kernel) or other open-source projects with no official "support"? We do as a matter of practice take questions on software for which the only support channel is "Ask the intertubes"... | |
| Sep 5, 2012 at 16:20 | history | answered | MDMarra | CC BY-SA 3.0 |