From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 5 20:57:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC30F37B41B; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 20:57:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fB64vVa52932; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:57:31 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fB64vUM86889; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:57:31 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200112060457.fB64vUM86889@harmony.village.org> To: Mike Barcroft Subject: Re: Can TCP changes be put in RELENG_4? Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Dec 2001 12:08:49 EST." <20011205120849.F63148@espresso.q9media.com> References: <20011205120849.F63148@espresso.q9media.com> <21984.1007486225@winston.freebsd.org> <200112042040.fB4Keb514245@pgh.nepinc.com> <20011205115102.E63148@espresso.q9media.com> <20011205175617.A4890@freebie.xs4all.nl> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 21:57:30 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20011205120849.F63148@espresso.q9media.com> Mike Barcroft writes: : Did I miss a change in policy? The original announcement about : RELENG_4_3 said: That text didn't accurately reflect the agreement that the security officer and the release engineer came to when we set things up. There can be critical bug fixes, but they have to be very very severe. The more things that change in these branches, the harder it is to do binary patches. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message