Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:29:30 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: mdf@freebsd.org Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r220755 - in head: . contrib/gcc/doc contrib/gcc/objc contrib/libobjc etc/mtree gnu/lib gnu/lib/libobjc gnu/usr.bin/cc gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc1obj gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools gnu/usr.bin/cc/doc s... Message-ID: <201104191129.30602.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinh6X=Rzwokr3OMPo4k3=jOjkL47g@mail.gmail.com> References: <201104172103.p3HL3Ntb049564@svn.freebsd.org> <201104190840.29535.jhb@freebsd.org> <BANLkTinh6X=Rzwokr3OMPo4k3=jOjkL47g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday, April 19, 2011 10:28:23 am mdf@freebsd.org wrote: > Trimming since I have a mostly-unrelated question... > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 5:40 AM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Monday, April 18, 2011 3:59:45 pm Warner Losh wrote: > >> In this case, there was a new kernel thing just after, so it turned out OK. > >> But let's not gratuitously bump the version since the granularity we have > >> already allows the ports to make good choices on when to leave something in or > >> out. > > > > Except that that directly contradicts our previously established policy that > > these version bumps are cheap and that we should do more of them (this came up > > a few years ago when we changed the policy so that the new "stable" branch > > after a release starts at N + 500 (e.g. 802500) rather than N + 100 to give > > more room for version bumps on current). > > I thought I remembered reading (within the past 2 years) that > __FreeBSD_version should not be incremented more than once a day, > since there was a limit of 100 before the version minor number was > affected. Did I get the polarity backwards and that was the old > policy? Well, I would avoid more than once a day still, but the 100 limit is now 500 in 8.0 and later (we had more than 100 bumps during 8.0-current which resulted in a discussion where we chose to raise the limit to 500 rather than discourage bumps in current). -- John Baldwin
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