From: URABE Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
Date: 2006-11-10T10:59:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Future Plans for Ruby 1.8 Series

URABE Shyouhei wrote:
> (1) Ruby development goes into three-branch-model (like branches in *BSD
> world):
> - CURRENT branch: trunk (currently ruby 1.9)
> - STABLE branch: ruby_1_8 branch that exists now
> - RELEASE branch: new branch to only adopt bug fixes
>   

You may not be familiar with it. STABLE is a *BSD technical term and
does not mean a "stable source code". Refer these documents:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html
http://www.netbsd.org/Releases/release-map.html

and useful ML debates:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-September/028193.html