From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 11 19:51:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-172.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2597A37B408 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 19:51:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (topperwein.dyndns.org [192.168.168.10]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5C2rFK32944 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:53:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:53:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: Chris BeHanna To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: Why is the STABLE branch not so stable anymore? In-Reply-To: <20010611190443.B70538@databits.net> Message-ID: 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, 11 Jun 2001, Pete Fritchman wrote: > When you report a problem, remember this isn't a commercial entity, > but a volunteer project and that a 6-hour turnaround time is pretty > decent. A 6-hour turnaround time is pretty frigging *AWESOME*, actually. I never cease to be amazed at the level of support there is for most open source software, given that no formal support agreement exists with the user base. By way of contrast, it took one of the larger software companies in the world more than three days to verify the sev. 1 I demonstrated to them (only after I handheld one of their engineers through porting the test case from HP-UX to their reference platform), and another 36 hours to deliver a fix, and that support literally cost a fortune. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message