Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 13:01:50 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, nate@yogotech.com Subject: Re: local changes to CVS tree Message-ID: <3B9684AE.31C4FB9F@mindspring.com> References: <20010905131027.A5476@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> <200109051723.f85HNbl07385@vashon.polstra.com> <3B967827.F166E3A6@mindspring.com> <15254.31457.818766.916542@nomad.yogotech.com> <200109051925.f85JPce08130@vashon.polstra.com>
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John Polstra wrote: > No, Terry's idea is sound as long as you only try to track one branch > of FreeBSD. I.e., you consider FreeBSD to be your vendor, and you do > a checkout-mode type of fetch from a branch of the FreeBSD repository > and directly import it onto your own vendor branch. This would meet > the needs of a lot of people, e.g., companies who make products based > on FreeBSD. Yes, precisely. People always complain that companies are gun-shy of -current; the inability to tag a "sufficiently stable" version is why most companies stay away from it. This means that most commercially funded work occurs on the -RELEASE/-STABLE branches, for fear of destabilizing their products. Everyone in FreeBSD-land always complains about this, even as they continue to make -current even less stable, and less likely to result in them getting funded help to work on it. So a lot of forward looking research takes a lot longer than it should to bear fruit (or wither, if it turns out to be a net loss). > I have had this on my to-do list for a long time, but I have no idea > if or when it'll ever get implemented. It would require a focused > period of working on it that I just don't have these days. Maybe if > the economy gets worse ... I hear Hewlett-Compaqard is laying off 15,000, if that's any incentive... I guess a better question would be whether funding would help? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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