From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 18 5:56:25 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 DB8BF37B401 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 05:56:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A9FF43E4A for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 05:56:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D773A8A191E; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 09:56:17 -0400 (AST) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 09:56:17 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Richard Caley Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -STABLE was stable for long time (Re: FreeBSD: Server or DesktopOS?) In-Reply-To: <87k7jbuhfl.fsf@pele.r.caley.org.uk> Message-ID: <20021118095549.O23359-100000@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 18 Nov 2002, Richard Caley wrote: > In article <3DD8E8E2.BB8A709A@ene.asda.gr>, Lefteris Tsintjelis (lt) writes: > > lt> If its a matter of "never committed at all" (I do have a few doubts on this one) > lt> then I guess I have no other choice here but -STABLE or at least some other branch > lt> that is at least maintained. So, which one might that be? > > If STABLE has become de-facto a development branch, and RELEASE needs to > remain rack solid so it can be treated as having had all the pre-release > testing on it, making people reluctant to put in any but the safest > fixes, perhaps it would be a good idea if there were a system of > official patches to RELEASE. These could come with a proviso that they > have been tested to STABLE standards, but not to RELEASE standards, but > if you absolutely need the fix... But, how do you test them to STABLE standards without running STABLE? And if STABLE runs *stable*, why not just run STABLE in the first place? :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message