Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 12:24:03 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org>, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-7@freebsd.org, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> Subject: Re: svn commit: r227549 - stable/7/sys/nfsclient Message-ID: <201112061224.03891.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4ED7FE64.9010909@FreeBSD.org> References: <1769030615.700252.1322693541806.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> <201112011642.53968.jhb@freebsd.org> <4ED7FE64.9010909@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thursday, December 01, 2011 5:23:32 pm Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 01/12/2011 23:42 John Baldwin said the following: > > On Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:59:54 am Mark Saad wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: > >>> On 11/30/2011 14:52, Rick Macklem wrote: > >>>> I'm relatively new to FreeBSD, but I've never heard of an MFC to a > >>>> Release branch. (As far as I know, if it ever happens, it's for a > >>>> serious errata or security issue.) > >>> > >>> You are correct sir. :) > >>> > >> So how would I ever see this in an official release as an errata fix ? > > > > At this point you likely won't. The vast majority of patches to releases are > > only for security advisories. Very few errata are merged back to releases > > currently. It may be that we are too hesitant to do so, but the manpower > > overhead of actually getting the changes merged back and getting appropriate > > folks to sign off on everything is extremely high (and the exact process for > > getting an EN approved is not very clear or really even documented to my > > knowledge). > > > > Just to clarify - the fix will be in the future (official) releases from 8, 9 > and so on branches. Yes, but without EN's there is no currently supported release a user can use to get this bug fix. I still think we are too hesitant to merge EN's. -- John Baldwin
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