From owner-cvs-all Wed Mar 14 10:11:19 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDDD937B718; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:11:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (Studded@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA50011; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:10:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <3AAFB42F.95513604@gorean.org> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:10:55 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Richards Cc: Kris Kennaway , Gregory Sutter , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: proposals for fixing the PROBLEM at hand References: <20010312160321.B95497@mollari.cthul.hu> <200103130307.TAA41551@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <20010312193452.A2927@mollari.cthul.hu> <3AAE5A9A.341F634F@originative.co.uk> <20010314005648.I9369@klapaucius.zer0.org> <20010314011016.A28290@mollari.cthul.hu> <3AAF86A6.65492AEC@freebsd-services.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paul Richards wrote: > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 12:56:48AM -0800, Gregory Sutter wrote: > > > > > 2. Update the -RELEASE branch for security fixes and critical bugfixes > > > > This one isn't a proposal, it's something we've been planning to do > > for quite a while (and it's been mentioned several times on lists). > > Well I was under the impression that you were going to be quite pedantic > about it being security fixes only. If it's critical bugfixes as well > then that's exactly what I've been calling for. The problem is that one person's "critical" bug fix is another person's needless bloat/complication of the security bugfix process. I personally feel strongly that the proposed branch updates should be security only. If you feel that a bugfix in -stable is appropriate to your site, the onus is on you to upgrade to -stable. Doug -- Perhaps the greatest damage the American system of education has done to its children is to teach them that their opinions are relevant simply because they are their opinions. Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message