From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 10 7:29:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc4-card4-0-cust162.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.4.14.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B1EC37B405 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 07:29:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 176BOC-0002nZ-00; Fri, 10 May 2002 15:28:56 +0100 Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 15:28:56 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: "John T. Farmer" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, kris@obsecurity.org Subject: Re: conf/11376 still suspended Message-ID: <20020510142856.GA10525@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , "John T. Farmer" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, kris@obsecurity.org References: <20020509233557.A35087@xor.obsecurity.org> <200205101347.JAA21782@rapier.goldsword.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200205101347.JAA21782@rapier.goldsword.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i 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 Fri, May 10, 2002 at 09:47:30AM -0400, John T. Farmer wrote: > On Thu, 9 May 2002 23:35:57 Kris Kennaway said: > > On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 09:27:33AM +0300, Dmitry A. Yanko wrote: > > > On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 03:49:45PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > Can anybody fix it before 4.6-RELEASE? > > > > This kind of request should be made _before_ code freeze, not after. > > > Ok, but look at the date of PR. > > > > I know it's been sitting there for a long time, my point was just that > > you're better off bugging people when we're not in the middle of a > > release cycle. Every time we go into code freeze people seem to come > > out of the woodwork asking for patches to be committed in time for the > > release of the version which was just frozen. > > You are of course referring to the code freeze that was just > announced as a "retro-alert." Dinging him for asking about progress > on an old PR and using the release code freeze as the reason, well > that's silly. He didn't know the freeze was in place until it was > announced. It was announced after the tree was frozen. See a > catch-22 here? It was announced on the front page of www.FreeBSD.org on May 1st, exactly the same day as it was put in place, exactly on schedule as set out in the release schedule at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.6R/schedule.html. Not too retrospective really. Ceri -- get the cool shoe shine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message