Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 05:55:17 -0300 From: H <hm@hm.net.br> To: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD9 and the sheer number of problem reports Message-ID: <4F49F375.5000002@hm.net.br> In-Reply-To: <op.v95ejibz34t2sn@tech304> References: <4F46847D.4010908@my.gd> <op.v95ejibz34t2sn@tech304>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mark Felder wrote: > On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:25:01 -0600, Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> > wrote: > >> >> Now, I find the number of problem reports regarding 9.0-RELEASE >> alarming and I'm growing more and more fearful towards it. > > Then stick with the 8.x train until it's no longer supported. > Also, don't you know the rule about running .0 releases in > production? :) > > 9.0 had LOTS of changes. They were very important. It's going to > take a while for the community to fully absorb them and bugs to be > worked out. We don't have enough testers of -CURRENT to prevent > this. Everything seemed stable (ie, no release blockers) for the > people running -CURRENT and -PRERELEASE, BETAs, and RCs, so it was > released. > > But as always, TEST TEST TEST and please have a proper > staging/test environment before you throw your production into > 9.x. > that is all understandable but the point should not be forgotten ... I mean certainly -RELEASE __is__ the production release so, few testers is no excuse, still more when that is a known issue, so a bigger time frame would be the solution until the var _seemed_stable change into _is_stable of course, that is not always so easy but also think of side effects, few_testers could change into still_less when FreeBSD prove to have unstable releases - -- H -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk9J83UACgkQvKVfg5xjCDw7ggCfTpMhHuGqetRHUbKmBmCfRMwn d04An3f8UIdfvtee47NYCS+EjqCk+1t7 =fJbU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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