From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 18 6:46: 2 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 79C4037B401 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 06:46:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from ene.asda.gr (ene.asda.gr [193.92.118.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B34343E77 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 06:46:00 -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 046353FEE; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:45:59 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <3DD8FD2B.8A95364E@ene.asda.gr> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:46:03 +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: Richard Caley Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -STABLE was stable for long time (Re: FreeBSD: Server or DesktopOS?) References: <20021118090627.B23359-100000@hub.org> <3DD8E8E2.BB8A709A@ene.asda.gr> <87k7jbuhfl.fsf@pele.r.caley.org.uk> 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 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... I think the best thing is to keep things as simple as possible. That would probably complicate things even further for a not so expert user. I personally think that a fix should always be a fix and should apply to all (-STABLE or -RELEASE or whatever reliable or not branch might that be). It is only a matter if you have been bitten by it or not. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message