From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 29 18:35:26 2004 Return-Path: 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 D632216A4CE for ; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 18:35:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CAA443D1F for ; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 18:35:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i212ZFe0014898; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:35:15 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu (Unverified) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20040301011147.GE20621@aurema.com> References: <20040301011147.GE20621@aurema.com> Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:35:14 -0500 To: Christopher Vance , stable@FreeBSD.org From: Garance A Drosehn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Re: HEADSUP!!! USB MFC committed.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 02:35:26 -0000 At 12:11 PM +1100 3/1/04, Christopher Vance wrote: >On Sun, Feb 29, 2004, Julian Elischer wrote: >>The USB code in RELENG_4 has been updated to match that >>in -current. Please test any USB devices that are critical >>to you BEFORE we release 4.10 :-) > > >Would the effort to keep making 4.X releases be better spent >making 5.X stable, or are the two efforts not competing for >the same developer resources? > This is a very useful project for a subset of FreeBSD users who need better USB support, and who are not going to jump to 5.x right away. If Julian wants to work on this, I think it's a fine project to do. [well, assuming he doesn't BREAK anything! :-) ] There's always a long list of important projects to work on, and each developer has a different priority for which are the "most worthy" projects to tackle. Julian *has* been working on improvements to -current, but right now this is the item at the top of his list, due to the users that he deals with the most. I see no problem. Since this is a volunteer project, Julian will "make the time" to work on the projects at the top of his priority list. So, since he's volunteering to work on what he wants to work on, we are not losing any time by letting him volunteer his time on this weekend to do this particular improvement for some of our (FreeBSD) users. On the one hand I know what you're getting at, but on the other hand this is still a basically volunteer project... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA