Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:10:22 -0700 From: Paul Saab <ps@freebsd.org> To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu Cc: Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com> Subject: Re: TCP SACK backport to -STABLE Message-ID: <412D0E4E.5040000@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <17337.69.53.57.66.1093471244.squirrel@69.53.57.66> References: Message from Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com> <200408251255.53472.darcy@wavefire.com> <20040825204531.75239F987@gemini.nersc.gov> <17337.69.53.57.66.1093471244.squirrel@69.53.57.66>
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Jon Noack wrote: >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 > > And bugs have been found since that time. We need more time and testing before anything should be backported to -stable.
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