From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 29 4:35:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 731D737B69E for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 04:35:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA36343; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 07:34:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 07:34:15 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: j mckitrick Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: november 25 revisions Message-ID: <20001129073415.A36276@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20001129115337.A58748@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20001129115337.A58748@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 11:53:38AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 11:53:38AM +0000, j mckitrick wrote: > Sorry if this is a stupid question, but after the release on Nov 21, I just > saw a *huge* set of revisions scattered all over the tree posted Nov 25. > What happened that so much was changed immediately after a stable release? Didn't pay much attention myself, but... Developers who were waiting to MFC during the code freeze will frequently dump their changes right after a release is burned. For example, IIRC, the recent mdoc fixes were put in right after 4.2 was cut. ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message