From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 25 6:34:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from anon.lcs.mit.edu (anon.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B26FA15718 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 06:34:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from serge69@nym.alias.net) Date: 25 May 1999 13:34:22 -0000 Message-ID: <19990525133422.27970.qmail@nym.alias.net> From: Sergey Subject: Re: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? To: "Robert Withrow" Cc: References: <199905251300.JAA06131@spooky.rwwa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You have said clearly what I tried to say... Thanks, Sergey. > > mike@smith.net.au said: > :- We depend on our users to tell us about problems on the -stable branch > :- before it's rolled into a release, not afterwards. If you're not > :- willing to take part in this process, your complaints are likely to > :- be ignored at the very least. > > Do I read this correctly as a policy statement that problem reports > for -RELEASE are discouraged and ignored? Seems like a good way > to ensure the non-fixing of bugs. > > An equally good way to ensure the non-fixing of bugs is to demand, > for every bug report, that the reporter upgrade to some other version > of the OS, or suffer the problem report being ignored and discarded. > And this seems to be the common practice. > > It is probably just my naivety (I've only been doing this for 30 years) > but it seems to me a better approach would be to welcome and encourage > bug reports against -RELEASE. And, should it be the case that the problem > is fixed in -STABLE or -CURRENT, cheerfully inform the reporter of that > fact, leaving it up to the reporter to decide if upgrading makes sense. > Assuming that fixing the bugs is the goal. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott MA, witr@rwwa.COM > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message