From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 3 16:44:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9282037B502; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 16:44:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e93NgbE16200; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 16:42:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 16:42:37 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Peter Wemm Cc: Jonathan Lemon , Paul Richards , Jordan Hubbard , Christopher Masto , Warner Losh , Kris Kennaway , Joseph Scott , Brian Somers , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/finger finger.c Message-ID: <20001003164236.Q27736@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20001003155638.B73409@hub.freebsd.org> <200010032326.e93NQ7H17213@netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200010032326.e93NQ7H17213@netplex.com.au>; from peter@netplex.com.au on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:26:07PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Peter Wemm [001003 16:30] wrote: > Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > > Uh. If only the "-stable" team were allowed to commit to -stable, > > then it would quickly become the -stale branch. I think that we had > > this at one point with 3.X, and there were lots of complaints. > > Yes, this is what happened with 3.x and it was a disaster. We must not > let this happen again. > There's a large difference between kernel and userland here, kernel changes need to be backported relatively quickly while userland can allow for a longer test period. Seperate policies may serve us better than one that covers the entire tree. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message