Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:28:38 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: dan.naumov@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Subject: Re: regarding kern/148655 fix for 8.1 Message-ID: <4CD18DB6.5010006@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <201011031622.oA3GMl8o032477@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <AANLkTikuRtQEdWXME1U-uFfhockrH=cq6_tSCGxEabAN@mail.gmail.com> <201011031622.oA3GMl8o032477@lurza.secnetix.de>
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on 03/11/2010 18:22 Oliver Fromme said the following: > Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am not entirely sure why my question was understood as some kind of > > aggression, that was certainly not my intention. > > > > > When is the fix getting backported from -STABLE to 8.1 as an errata fix? > > I think this a normal, valid question? > > By asking "when" you imply that you expect it to be backported. > You're not asking for it to be backported. That's a difference. > > Note that the PR was closed (already two months ago), which > usually means that no further merges are planned. If you want > the patch to be merged to another branch, like releng/8.1, > you should rather ask for it to be merged, not ask "when" it > will be merged. The likely answer to the latter might be > "never". Oliver made some good points overall, to which I might only add that such decisions are made by Release Engineering team. So a request like this should go to them (re@), not to a mailing list where technical details of filesystem development and usage are typically discussed. -- Andriy Gapon
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