From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 7 07:24:25 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id HAA28376 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 07:24:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id HAA28371 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 07:24:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id QAA10779; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 16:23:53 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA16008; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 16:23:47 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id QAA20092; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 16:03:01 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612071503.QAA20092@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD etc. To: chat@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 16:03:01 +0100 (MET) Cc: rkw@dataplex.net, softweyr@xmission.com (Softweyr LLC) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199612060018.RAA04841@xmission.xmission.com> from Softweyr LLC at "Dec 5, 96 05:18:10 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Softweyr LLC wrote: > As I suggested earlier, talk to Jordan and work > something out so that *you* can continue to support security patches to > the 2.1.x tree: > > o Gather together others who will help you, perhaps from the ISP > community. > > O Create a mechanism for distributing patches to those who don't have > disk space to keep the entire source tree on-line. > > o Create a patch kit. > > o Get some people with resources to test it. > > o *NOW* get it branded as an official part of FreeBSD, and put onto > the master ftp server, wcarchive. I think if (and when) topics 1 through 4 are covered, topic 5 is not a big deal. Excellent summary! -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)