Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 20:31:38 +0100 From: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart) To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> Cc: ac199@hwcn.org, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>, Niall Smart <njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk>, nick@foobar.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem reports closed by Poul-Henning Kamp [was: Re: misc/6712] Message-ID: <E0ydK14-0003Uf-00@oak66.doc.ic.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> "Re: Problem reports closed by Poul-Henning Kamp [was: Re: misc/6712]" (May 23, 9:05pm)
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On May 23, 9:05pm, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: } Subject: Re: Problem reports closed by Poul-Henning Kamp [was: Re: misc/67 > In message <35671CD4.7DA01D1@san.rr.com>, Studded writes: > >> > > I think the commentary is more along the lines of there being a problem > >with a PR being closed at all just because it's fixed in -Current. I > >have suggested that there be a new state for PR's that have been fixed > >in -Current and awaiting a commit to -Stable. > > Only if a crew of dedicated committers, commit themselves to keeping > this new state empty on a continuing basis does this proposal have > any merit. I have a better suggestion: don't commit fixes to either -stable or -current unless you are prepared to commit to both. Obviously this rule isn't universal, there are bugs which are release specific, or which would involve a possible destablisation of the -stable tree to properly fix, in these cases the decision has to be made after due consideration, but as a general rule of thumb, I think it makes a lot of sense. As a -stable user its very annoying to spend a couple of hours chasing down a problem and writing a patch only to see it disappear into -current and then to have to chase a committer for days until it applied to -stable. And it's especially annoying when the patch is just a quick job which takes a fraction of the time to apply as it did for me to find and fix. Regards, Niall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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