[rfc] six-month stable release cycles

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:36:01AM +1000 I heard the voice of
Martin Pool, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> you are in a sense no worse off except that:
> [...]

>  * you may as you say get flack that it's almost always a beta.

Including from myself.


> Based on my understanding of the BSD process it seems to make sense
> to put our monthly releases into CURRENT and the stable releases
> into STABLE.

Well...   It Don't Work Like That(tm).  There's only one ports tree.


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