Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:00:44 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jon Noack" <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> To: "Eli Dart" <dart@nersc.gov> Cc: Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com> Subject: Re: TCP SACK backport to -STABLE Message-ID: <17337.69.53.57.66.1093471244.squirrel@69.53.57.66> In-Reply-To: <20040825204531.75239F987@gemini.nersc.gov> References: Message from Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com> <200408251255.53472.darcy@wavefire.com> <20040825204531.75239F987@gemini.nersc.gov>
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Eli Dart wrote: > Careful there.....one major reason I use FreeBSD is that, compared > with the other operating systems I can use, major breakages are rare. > > I expect the policy that prevents you from deploying the most > featureful OS available is there to avoid the late-night pain > required to run the latest and greatest features in production. > > It would be a shame if stability were lost in a rush for new > features. If smarter people than I feel that SACK should be > backported, great. However, I for one greatly appreciate the > commitments to stability and POLA that are so much a part of FreeBSD. >From the Release Engineering document: FreeBSD-CURRENT is the "bleeding-edge" of FreeBSD development where all new changes first enter the system. FreeBSD-STABLE is the development branch from which major releases are made. Changes go into this branch at a different pace, and with general assumption that they have first gone into FreeBSD-CURRENT and have been thoroughly tested by our user community. These types of backports happen all the time, and having another person to share the load is not a bad thing. Active maintenance of RELENG_4 is good for everyone, and those interested most likely have stability as their first priority anyway (because otherwise they wouldn't be using RELENG_4). Regardless, the original work was done on RELENG_4 and ported to -CURRENT: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2004-June/025956.html Jon
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