Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:49:54 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: Kurt Lidl <lidl@pix.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: criteria for patch inclusion in patch release? Message-ID: <4F986372.1070400@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20120424171909.GA99220@pix.net> References: <20120424171909.GA99220@pix.net>
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on 24/04/2012 20:19 Kurt Lidl said the following: > What determines the patch worthiness of particular fixes that > have gone into a the source tree for inclusion into the next > patch release of a given -RELEASE branch? > > As an example, there are two patches that improve life for > those of us who use fxp ethernet adaptors (r233158, r233585). > Both of these came out after the branch of 8.3-RELEASE, > I believe. Neither of these patches are in 8.3-STABLE, as > far as I can tell. I think they ought to be in at least > 8-STABLE or 9-STABLE, based on their change dates and the > "MFC after: 1 week"/"MFC after: 2 weeks" notations in the > SVN entries. > > In my ideal world, these two patches would wind up in the > first patch release of 8.3-RELEASE, but that's my ideal world. > Is there some way to nominate these changes for inclusion > in what will be the p1 release of 8.3? > > Thanks for any insight... Only security issues and severe bugs affecting majority of the users get into patch releases. "Normal" bug fixes (should) get into the next release. -- Andriy Gapon
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