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Date:      Sun, 21 May 2000 13:05:36 -0400
From:      "Mike O'Dell" <mo@servo.ccr.org>
To:        Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>
Cc:        Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, ps@FreeBSD.ORG, Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca, mo@servo.ccr.org
Subject:   Re: 4.0_STABLE Broken (was Re: FTP proxy without translation no longer working? (fwd)) 
Message-ID:  <200005211705.NAA01297@servo.ccr.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 May 2000 11:55:38 CDT." <20000521115538.E5468@prism.flugsvamp.com> 

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please just unbreak what you broke and then fix it offline.

the fact you didn't find it in testing is no reason
to subject the world to this problem. IP filtering
matters a great deal to some and they expect
-stable to be just that - stable.

yes, it's a shame there is no regression test suite to
catch such problems, but that doesn't absolve
you of retracting the change immediately to
unbreak things.  

there are test suites out there which can and do find lots
of problems in kernel development - i know - i ran a
kernel development group and we did a kernel build
and a full regression test *every* day, and you'd be
amazed at the impact of some "trivial" changes.

maybe one of the testing tool houses might volunteer
to run their test suite on a regular basis and 
publish the results?

at least do it as part of a release freeze?

surely one of them would like the publicity....

	-mo




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