From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 8 11:47:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.oskarmobil.cz (smtp1.oskarmobil.cz [217.77.161.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1224137B406; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:47:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wh01ex01.ceskymobil.cz (wh01ex01.oskarmobil.cz [172.20.116.17]) by smtp1.oskarmobil.cz (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f98IiCV34791; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 20:44:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Milon.Papezik@oskarmobil.cz) Received: by wh01ex01.oskarmobil.cz with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 20:45:07 +0200 Message-ID: From: Milon Papezik To: "'freebsd-question@freebsd.org'" , "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Release difference ? Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 20:45:06 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-2" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks a lot to all who replied and clarified the difference from different points of view. Thank you! Milon > -----Original Message----- > From: Warner Losh [mailto:imp@harmony.village.org] > Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 20:28 > To: Michael Sierchio > Cc: 'freebsd-question@freebsd.org'; 'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org' > Subject: Re: Release difference ? > > > In message <3BBF3BC4.C92854D6@tenebras.com> Michael Sierchio writes: > : could you cite the charter or a reference to it? Thanks. > > No, I can't. That was the recollections of me and Jordan when we set > things up. Jordan approves the extremely critical fixes, while Kris > Kennaway does the Security ones (or members of the seccurity team). > Fixes have to be in the Oh My God league, however. I've seen a total > of 1 of them that was also security related since we started doing > this. > > Ordinary fixes don't go into that branch. Its primary purpose is for > security related fixes. While there was some talk of calling it > -SECURITY, we'll continue to call it 4.4-RELEASE and add -pN, like we > did for 4.3. Sure, other methods may be better, but they a) likely > aren't better enough and b) would be a huge bikeshed (again) if we > opened the floor up for themm. > > Warner > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message