From owner-cvs-all Thu Jun 29 7:33: 6 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.bart.nl (lucifer.bart.nl [194.158.168.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B59537BC97; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 07:32:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@lucifer.bart.nl) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by lucifer.bart.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA41205; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 16:32:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 16:32:55 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven To: Doug Barton Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: backporting to 3.5 Message-ID: <20000629163254.Z34726@lucifer.bart.nl> References: <200006282248.PAA26257@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug@gorean.org on Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 04:13:54PM -0700 Organisation: VIA Net.Works The Netherlands Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -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 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