Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 11:12:55 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@firepipe.net> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Stable ML <stable@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <hackers@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Core Team <core@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins. Message-ID: <CADBaqmj5wAP-uG6RmOA_zTgQ1VG%2BT0CyUie3SYks4ooPqPRpOw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201905151544.x4FFiR0G067138@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <CAOtMX2hA2AfVuNrFxDhXLpY74UAcrWXSd0GjZ1uJJq2vZ5T1qw@mail.gmail.com> <201905151544.x4FFiR0G067138@fire.js.berklix.net>
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On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 10:45 AM Julian H. Stacey <jhs@berklix.com> wrote: > Batching also means some of these vulnerabilities could have been > fixed earlier & less of a surge of demand on recipient admins time. > > An admin can find time to ameliorate 1 bug, not 8 suddenly together. > Avoidance is called planning ahead. Giving warning of a workload. > Like an admin plans ahead & announces an outage schedule for planned > upgrade. > > Suddenly dumping 8 on admins causes overload on admin manpower. > 8 reason for users to approach admin in parallel & say > "FreeBSD seems riddled, how long will all the sudden unplanned > outages take ? Should we just dump it ?" > Dont want negative PR & lack of management. > What admins prefer 8 downtime events instead of 1? --Will.
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