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From: twig les <twigles@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: security fixes
To: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>,
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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.

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