From owner-cvs-all Tue Oct 3 15:40:32 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.originative.co.uk (mailgate.originative.co.uk [194.217.50.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A42BB37B66C; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 15:40:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from originative.co.uk (lobster.originative.co.uk [194.217.50.241]) by mailgate.originative.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6806C1D140; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 23:40:21 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <39DA6055.594B13E4@originative.co.uk> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 23:40:21 +0100 From: Paul Richards X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: Christopher Masto , Warner Losh , Kris Kennaway , Joseph Scott , Brian Somers , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/finger finger.c References: <83262.970607906@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > If it's now part of your full-time hattism to worry about this then I > hope you'll start spending some number of hours each day in reviewing > each and every change which goes into -stable. However many other I think you're looking at it the wrong way around. The stable team wouldn't be putting in a lot of hours reviewing stable commits. Stable commits would only occur if the stable team did them i.e. no-one else would be allowed to commit to stable. The stable team would then monitor -current, noting commits that are bug fixes, and slating them for a MFC at a later date when it's felt they've had enough of a shakeout. Stable would stagnate to some extent, certainly more so than it presently does, but I think that's exactly what should happen to a stable branch. That's not to say that new features would never make it back to the stable branch but they would certainly do so a lot more slowly and only if there was real value to them and not just because they exist. Paul Richards FreeBSD Services Ltd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message