Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 16:32:55 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl> To: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: backporting to 3.5 Message-ID: <20000629163254.Z34726@lucifer.bart.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006281608580.43075-100000@dt052n3e.san.rr.com>; from Doug@gorean.org on Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 04:13:54PM -0700 References: <200006282248.PAA26257@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006281608580.43075-100000@dt052n3e.san.rr.com>
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-On [20000629 01:16], Doug Barton (Doug@gorean.org) wrote: > > Is there going to be a policy regarding what to backport to >3.5? My understanding was that once the 3.5-RELEASE tag was laid down all >that would go back would be bug/security fixes. My personal opinion is >that if we backport too much we reduce the users' motivation to move to >4.x, not to mention the maintenance problems as a discouragement to >committers who do feature development. I am personally doing and still going to do a whole lot of backporting to 3.5-STABLE in order to ease the upgrade path to 4.x. I don't mind doing MFC work for others and testing it. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl> VIA Net.Works The Netherlands BSD: Technical excellence at its best http://www.via-net-works.nl Looking for the Sun that eclipsed behind black feathered wings... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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