From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 18 6:58:56 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 991BB37B401 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 06:58:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.r.caley.org.uk (pc-62-31-72-193-ed.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.72.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99BAA43E9C for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 06:58:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjc@caley.org.uk) Received: from pele.r.caley.org.uk (pele.r.caley.org.uk [10.0.0.12]) by mail.r.caley.org.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAIEwm50032669; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 14:58:48 GMT (envelope-from rjc@caley.org.uk) Received: from pele.r.caley.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pele.r.caley.org.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAIEwlmI027100; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 14:58:48 GMT (envelope-from rjc@pele.r.caley.org.uk) Received: (from rjc@localhost) by pele.r.caley.org.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAIEwlJP027099; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 14:58:47 GMT (envelope-from rjc) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 14:58:47 GMT Message-Id: <200211181458.gAIEwlJP027099@pele.r.caley.org.uk> From: Richard Caley Subject: Re: -STABLE was stable for long time (Re: FreeBSD: Server or DesktopOS?) To: Lefteris Tsintjelis In-Reply-To: Lefteris Tsintjelis's message of Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:46:03 +0200 References: <3DD8FD2B.8A95364E@ene.asda.gr> X-Dragon: Orm Embar Organisation: Golden Order of the Wienerschnitzel Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG 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 > I think the best thing is to keep things as simple as possible. But no simpler. > I personally think that a fix should always be a fix that is like saying a cure for cancer should be a cure for cancer. Fine. How do you know it is a cure and how do you know what the side effects will be. If life could ever be that simple we wouldn't need _any_ branches. A lot of testing goes into what becomes a release. People using the RELEASE branch have a reasonable expectation that it will have been tested to that standard. That amount of testing can't be done for every fix applied to the STABLE branch. Occasionally there will be a fix which will break something else that no one thought to test. Basicly, you can't have somethign which is stable and which gets fixed quickly, the two aims are in opposition. ^_^ (O O) \_/@@\ \\~~/ ~~ - RJC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message