From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 3 22:44:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4241337B66C; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 22:44:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from newsguy.com (p06-dn01kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.7]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id OAA08696; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 14:44:08 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <39DAC368.C6C213B7@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 14:43:04 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Warner Losh , Paul Richards , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/finger finger.c References: <39DA182C.C70ED553@originative.co.uk> <39D98B55.126DAFC4@originative.co.uk> <200010022227.PAA62603@freefall.freebsd.org> <39D92E08.E00CF2E4@owp.csus.edu> <20001002180303.A40584@freefall.freebsd.org> <39D98B55.126DAFC4@originative.co.uk> <200010031530.JAA26493@harmony.village.org> <20001003124008.A4892@netmonger.net> <39DA182C.C70ED553@originative.co.uk> <200010031800.MAA27859@harmony.village.org> <20001003162720.D51546@freefall.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kris Kennaway wrote: > > I think a formal MFC process may be too stifling, unless we have a > VERY responsive MFC team. Consider that we don't want the same thing > to happen as did with 3.x, where 4.0-CURRENT was allowed to diverge so > much that merging bugfixes became difficult. I don't think the comparision is appropriate. The divergence between 3.x and 4.x came at the very beginning of 3.x's life, and it was not merged back because it was too big a change. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@linux.bsdconspiracy.net the ants all left because mtn. dew is sold out again To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message