From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 11 14:24:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from femail8.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail8.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 513A837B401 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 14:24:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mixtim@home.com) Received: from cg392862-a.adubn1.nj.home.com ([65.2.79.221]) by femail8.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010611212443.XWDA7556.femail8.sdc1.sfba.home.com@cg392862-a.adubn1.nj.home.com> for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 14:24:43 -0700 Received: (from mixtim@localhost) by cg392862-a.adubn1.nj.home.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f5BLOhr18584 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 17:24:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mixtim) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 17:24:43 -0400 From: Mixtim To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Why is the STABLE branch not so stable anymore? Message-ID: <20010611172443.A18552@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 Several times in the last few weeks people have broken the STABLE branch, sometimes for days at a time. Why has this started happening? Is there no process to prevent this from happening? I have a wild idea. How about making everyone who commits to the STABLE branch actually: 1. Checkout a clean copy. 2. make buildworld. 3. Actually test the programs they changed. These three steps would have prevented each of the problems in the last few weeks. Does no one test anymore? Is no one required to test? Perhaps a process should be put into place. (unless there already is one in which case someone should start cracking the whip over some backs). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message