From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 19 13:12:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1722337B401 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:12:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from fubar.adept.org (fubar.adept.org [63.147.172.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4EFA43E91 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@adept.org) Received: by fubar.adept.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5CA751527E; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:11:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fubar.adept.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A75815247 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:11:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:11:22 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Hoskins To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: restoring definition of -stable In-Reply-To: <20021119104221.M19853-100000@hub.org> Message-ID: <20021119130547.E36571-100000@fubar.adept.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Actually, major benefit to this model is that JKHs time was dedicated to > the project, so if a patch did break something, he could dedicate the time > to tracking down the person who committed (or submitted) the patch to get > it fixed, or pull it out, accordingly ... That's the release manager's job... Any software project has to have someone coordinating code freezes and deciding what fixes bugs and what destablizies code before releases. So, even with JKH gone, someone's doing that now. It probably all comes back to the fact that, again, it's one person doing a whole lot. I don't see an immediately easy way out of that. Even with eager volunteers, I wouldn't just want anyone being held responsible for release manager duties. (Presumably volunteers would need enough coding experience to say "no" when needed and backup those decissions with convincing logic.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message