Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 11:09:00 +0100 From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Johan Granlund <johang@algonet.se>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The demise of -stable Message-ID: <199606071009.LAA25144@tees> In-Reply-To: <18208.834096340@time.cdrom.com> References: <199606061914.VAA07596@hermes.algonet.se> <18208.834096340@time.cdrom.com>
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>>>>> ""Jordan" == "Jordan K Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> writes: >> How about a stable branch as now. With bugfixes and choice bits >> from the -current tree. "Jordan> As long as none of us have to do the work, I guess I have no "Jordan> problem with -stable continuing to evolve by whichever group "Jordan> of -committers wishes to evolve it. My only worry would be "Jordan> about quality control and "rogue" releases making the rounds. "Jordan> There would have to be some sort of core team stamp of "Jordan> approval, I think, for everyone to be comfortable with the "Jordan> idea of additional releases being made along the -stable "Jordan> branch (unless the idea is that this is never made into "Jordan> another release but merely kept around as a shared source "Jordan> resource?). Well, I've already said to Jordan that I'd be willing to look after a -stable branch but *only* for bug fixes and only for bug fixes that can be done without a lot of re-architecting, those more complex bug fixes should be done in -current. There are companies I've sold FreeBSD systems to that actually use -stable as a bug fix tracking system, it's a hell of a lot nicer to sup or ctm -stable than it is to deal with Sun's bug fix system and we could make -stable a valuable resource along these lines. I think a bug-fix cdrom would be nice but that can be dicussed later, the idea of a bug fix mechanism is more important to me. The sort of bug fixes that would be OK would be the fixes Justin has made to the adaptec driver, the sort of thing I wouldn't like to allow would be "choice bits" since that's not what people tracking -stable are really looking for, they want the bugs in the functionality they have fixed not new stuff, they'll wait until the next full release for that, their main concern is *stability*.
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