Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:23:32 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> Cc: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-stable@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-stable-7@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r227549 - stable/7/sys/nfsclient Message-ID: <4ED7FE64.9010909@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201112011642.53968.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <1769030615.700252.1322693541806.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> <4ED6B7CA.7050108@FreeBSD.org> <CAMXt9Na2jjt%2BBbNbCzKtU5fqxdLca7et6YsumTc2r%2B2a0nQp8g@mail.gmail.com> <201112011642.53968.jhb@freebsd.org>
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on 01/12/2011 23:42 John Baldwin said the following: > On Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:59:54 am Mark Saad wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> On 11/30/2011 14:52, Rick Macklem wrote: >>>> I'm relatively new to FreeBSD, but I've never heard of an MFC to a >>>> Release branch. (As far as I know, if it ever happens, it's for a >>>> serious errata or security issue.) >>> >>> You are correct sir. :) >>> >> So how would I ever see this in an official release as an errata fix ? > > At this point you likely won't. The vast majority of patches to releases are > only for security advisories. Very few errata are merged back to releases > currently. It may be that we are too hesitant to do so, but the manpower > overhead of actually getting the changes merged back and getting appropriate > folks to sign off on everything is extremely high (and the exact process for > getting an EN approved is not very clear or really even documented to my > knowledge). > Just to clarify - the fix will be in the future (official) releases from 8, 9 and so on branches. -- Andriy Gapon
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