From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 18 5:19:26 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 53CAB37B401 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 05:19:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from ene.asda.gr (ene.asda.gr [193.92.118.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1AC643E77 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 05:19:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lefty@ene.asda.gr) Received: from ene.asda.gr (lefty.ene.asda.gr [193.92.118.162]) by ene.asda.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77E993FEE; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:19:22 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <3DD8E8E2.BB8A709A@ene.asda.gr> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:19:30 +0200 From: Lefteris Tsintjelis Organization: ASDA X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,el MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Marc G. Fournier" Cc: Ceri Davies , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -STABLE was stable for long time (Re: FreeBSD: Server or DesktopOS?) References: <20021118090627.B23359-100000@hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 "Marc G. Fournier" wrote: > > 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 ... If its a matter of "never committed at all" (I do have a few doubts on this one) then I guess I have no other choice here but -STABLE or at least some other branch that is at least maintained. So, which one might that be? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message