Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 16:51:44 -0700 (PDT) From: twig les <twigles@yahoo.com> To: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>, FreeBSD Security <security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: security fixes Message-ID: <20020702235144.62834.qmail@web10101.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020702191848.O13868-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>
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Yak yak yak. Someone asked who thought it was a good idea and I did. Deal with it. > Chris BeHanna > http://www.pennasoft.com > Principal Consultant > PennaSoft Corporation > chris@pennasoft.com > > [1] I am neither a committer, nor a member of core, > nor a member of > the RE team.[2] I can't make this commitment > on their behalf. I > wrote this to illustrate to you what kind of > effort is involved, > and what kind of time frame is involved.[3][4] > > [2] I was the RE at my last job. I know firsthand > that it ain't just > turning a crank on a CVS snapshot to get a > release. > > [3] Unless the FreeBSD Project is willing to > postpone or drop > 5.0-DP2, which I highly doubt, or to postpone > or drop 5.0-RELEASE, > which I highly doubt, or to postpone or drop > 4.7-RELEASE, which I > highly doubt. There's too much going on in > this *volunteer* > project to cater to everyone's whim, desire, or > hobby horse. > > [4] The effort to put some of these changes into > RELENG_4_6 is > somewhat less, but still nontrivial and, again, > it's not my call. > It's far more likely to happen if you offer to > do some or all of > the work. ===== ----------------------------------------------------------- All warfare is based on deception. ----------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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