From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 10 6:51:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.internet.dk (ns.internet.dk [194.19.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9155E37B402 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 06:51:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by ns.internet.dk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with UUCP id f0AEp1V78892 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:51:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f0AEoZi24067 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:50:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:50:35 +0100 (CET) From: Leif Neland Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab) In-Reply-To: <20010110151211.A37285@mithrandr.moria.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In summary: I do not see a valid argument for not having the bugfix at > all, available as an option. I do see the argument for not changing the > default. I also see that everyone who opposes seems to believe that it > is only people without major skills that get confused by all this, since > people with major skills know not to rely on any behaviour over DST > changes. 66% of them agree (33% haven't expressed an opinion) without > provocation that those people with major skills will read the release > notes. Common sense indicates that they are able to use a command line > option that disable the new reliable behaviour. There has been > expressed a need for testing. That is dealt with by three years in > OpenBSD, and a period of time in the development branch, as per most > development. > If this is turning into a vote: I'm for the new colour of the bikeshed. Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message