From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 27 09:13:09 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2F441065670 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:13:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 594048FC0C for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:13:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcjc3 with SMTP id jc3so1042826bkc.13 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:13:08 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of ml@my.gd designates 10.204.154.211 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.204.154.211; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of ml@my.gd designates 10.204.154.211 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=ml@my.gd Received: from mr.google.com ([10.204.154.211]) by 10.204.154.211 with SMTP id p19mr6416776bkw.130.1330333988391 (num_hops = 1); Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:13:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.154.211 with SMTP id p19mr5175258bkw.130.1330333988193; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:13:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from dfleuriot-at-hi-media.com ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y9sm23390465bkw.5.2012.02.27.01.13.05 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:13:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F4B4920.9030508@my.gd> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:13:04 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <4F46847D.4010908@my.gd> <4F49F375.5000002@hm.net.br> <201202261630.57372.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <201202261630.57372.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQk3CeiiVanDKdVJZPF9UlO0rZ3ePlOFnFNV8PSEprxMONhrB9dOopQsKAc8GvR0uH0KD0DF Subject: Re: FreeBSD9 and the sheer number of problem reports X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:13:09 -0000 On 2/26/12 10:30 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: > No matter what effort you put into testing, you can never achieve the robustness of an older release. I still have 7.4 running on one. This can stay until next year. > > So, why do you want to run the latest release on an important machine? You can, but you are not in a position to complain then. > > Erich Do you not see this as a *huge* problem ? This means even fewer testers, again ! This weekend I replaced a server, moved it from 6.4-STABLE to 8.3-PRERELEASE. Hell, as far as I'm concerned it could have stayed on 6.4-STABLE to be honest, but I needed to replace the hardware which was getting old.