From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 5 19:17:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FBFB16A4DA for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 19:17:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [207.200.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CC7643D73 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 19:17:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id A9B7AE46; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 14:17:41 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 14:17:41 -0500 To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20060905191741.GB8865@soaustin.net> References: <200609041114.k84BEDRx097284@freefall.freebsd.org> <44FD95BC.6070907@norristechs.net> <20060905175048.GA83719@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060905175048.GA83719@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) Cc: Jeff at NorrisTechs , FreeBSD bugs list Subject: Re: i386/93787 install, startup freeze with compaq 1850R 6.0-Release. raise to critical bug! X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:17:46 -0000 On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:50:49PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Any updates? can this be raised as a critical bug ? > > "Critical" isn't looked at, since what is necessary is a developer to > investigate the PR. To reiterate, over the years so many people have declared problems to be 'critical' that most of the developers have concluded that the field is not meaningful. I've tried to correct that perception by demoting PRs that aren't a "stop-ship" kind of problem (e.g. affects FreeBSD on all architectures; data loss; and so forth) one level down. However, I don't think most of the developers have picked up on this. Having said that, the closing of bug reports in FreeBSD is totally driven by volunteers, so there is no real inducement for anyone to work on any particular problem. This is both the weakness, and the strength, of the open-source model: no one is _obligated_ to work on any particular problem, but anyone _can_ (e.g. by sending patches and thus eventually proving that they should be given a commit bit). I'm sure that's not the answer you want to hear, but it's a reality of volunteer projects. mcl