Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 01:57:15 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org> To: current@freebsd.org Cc: shocking@mailbox.uq.edu.au Subject: Let's stop breaking current for a couple of weeks. Message-ID: <199704022357.BAA13237@vector.jhs.no_domain> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Apr 1997 07:10:03 %2B1000." <199704022110.HAA00750@mailbox.uq.edu.au>
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Subject was: Re: ufs lock panic in -current Hi, Reference: > From: shocking@mailbox.uq.edu.au > > [The great FS patch saga deleted] > > Dammit, just get the blasted thing in current, where we'll beat the bugs out > of them. If you do this, I guarantee that Terry's email bill will drop by 50% - > 8^) 8^). Besides, I want to see what all this transitive closure stuff looks > like. > > Stephen _NO_ Thanks ! Have you heard the Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times" ? We don't need _more_ interesting new bugs in current this week or next. Like numerous others I dumped current & dropped back to a Release because I couldn't stand the recently constantly volatile broken current. Lite2 needs to go in, but as we've seen people asking other folks to sync other diffs to current, & getting the response ~"No. current is too volatile just now, wait till it calms down"~ ..... It's time to try for intervening periods of relative calm on current, between assualts by broken/untested/incomplete code; for if current becomes continuous broken hell, it'll deter other contributions. There've been a few "I survived a make world" claims lately .. but not many in a long time. Current needs to be less unstable for a while, so refugees can return to it from their Release temporary havens. If some people just want to view or publish odd bits of code in progress, web space does that, (EG I keep my add-ons & diffs in http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/src/src.html & maintain that copy with rdist, & applicability to src/ with a shell, & bits don't get offered for a commit until they're matured & proven benign :-) Please, Let's NOT _deliberately commit more broken or untested code, unless the stuff is #ifdefed out, (or kernel optioned), or not linked in by default, so it doesn't wreck the current operating base & deter other people working in other unrelated current areas ! Thanks ! Julian -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/
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