From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 3 13:30:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11D5F37B66C; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 13:30:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7A5EC1C77; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 16:30:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 16:30:20 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: Brett Glass Cc: Warner Losh , Paul Richards , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: STABLE support team [Was: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/finger finger.c] Message-ID: <20001003163020.B38472@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <39DA182C.C70ED553@originative.co.uk> <39D98B55.126DAFC4@originative.co.uk> <200010022227.PAA62603@freefall.freebsd.org> <39D92E08.E00CF2E4@owp.csus.edu> <20001002180303.A40584@freefall.freebsd.org> <39D98B55.126DAFC4@originative.co.uk> <200010031530.JAA26493@harmony.village.org> <20001003124008.A4892@netmonger.net> <200010031800.MAA27859@harmony.village.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20001003125150.04c7f3f0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001003125150.04c7f3f0@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 12:59:54PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 12:59:54PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > I'd be glad to help. As someone in a similar position (I *cannot* adopt > a branch for use on production servers before the .2 release), I've always > been a strong advocate of keeping -STABLE patched against newly discovered > problems. Why does the version number matter? If we released a new version every two weeks, would 4.2 still be production ready for you? What if 4.1.1 was called 4.2? Would you run it? People(not just Brett) need to look at features and benefits when deciding what version to run, not some magical number that gets incremented every now and then. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc. billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message