From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 18 10:17:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (krusty.dt.E-Technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C22237B40E for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:17:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from merlin.emma.line.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D36C9A3832 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 19:17:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 81EF83112; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 19:17:44 +0200 (CEST) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release References: <20020618092610.M32141-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> In-Reply-To: <20020618092610.M32141-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> (Fred Clift's message of "Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:38:46 -0600 (MDT)") From: Matthias Andree Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 19:17:44 +0200 Message-ID: Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Fred Clift writes: > It appears that your bias is towards stability at the expense of > innovation (I realize that they need not be not mutually exclusive). > Other's bias is toward getting new features at the expense of some > compatibility. People don't object to innovation, but if it comes at the expense of breaking previously-working system, then people will object: to the regression, not to the innovation. > One could argue that it might have been better to mfc earlier (ie right > after 4.5-R) or wait till after 4.6-R so that the most time possible for > working out these kinks could be used. Looking at since when S=F8ren has been able to reproduce the problem, it would not have helped at all. --=20 Matthias Andree To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message