From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 18 5: 7:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5ED837B401 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 05:07:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 639E943E3B for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 05:07:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83ED18A2D79; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 09:07:11 -0400 (AST) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 09:07:11 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Lefteris Tsintjelis Cc: Ceri Davies , Subject: Re: -STABLE was stable for long time (Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS?) In-Reply-To: <3DD8CA37.59AFE0A8@ene.asda.gr> Message-ID: <20021118090627.B23359-100000@hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: > Ceri Davies wrote: > > > > Also, to those suggesting that Marc should be running -RELEASE anyway, consider > > that bugs found in a -RELEASE typically have even less chance of getting fixed > > than bugs found in -STABLE (because only "critical" bugfixes are allowed). > > > > Ceri > > OK, I am confused here. I was planning on setting up a production server > and after reading all your messages, it still isn't clear to me weather > it is going to be -STABLE or -RELEASE. Chances are -RELEASE of course > but if a bug is found (rare most likely but still possible) and isn't > committed fast enough, isn't this a big problem for a production server? This is pretty much the whole argument ... and it isn't a matter of "committed fast enough", its a matter of "never committed at all", at least not to the RELENG_4_7 branch ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message