From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 27 9:53:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.ninth-circle.org (lucifer.bart.nl [194.158.168.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0F9337B479; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:53:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by lucifer.ninth-circle.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9RGrAA10424; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:53:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:53:10 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org, developers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! MFC's Message-ID: <20001027185310.V5433@lucifer.bart.nl> References: <20001027184107.T5433@lucifer.bart.nl> <20001027094613.E28123@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001027094613.E28123@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 09:46:13AM -0700 Organisation: VIA Net.Works The Netherlands Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [20001027 18:50], Alfred Perlstein (bright@wintelcom.net) wrote: >* Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven [001027 09:41] wrote: >> Short: if you value stability, please be careful updating any mission >> critical system for the coming few days. > >If you consider anything as a possible regression for stable users >then I urge you to not even consider MFC'ing. > >-stable is not meant to be a snapshot of -current, it's supposed >to be _stable_ as the name implies. You totally miss the point I was trying to communicate across. While I strive to make sure everything I MFC is tested it can always happen that something for some reason blows up. Some things are just beyond your control. I am just giving people a warning to be careful the next few days in updating their system as I am sure the MFC rushing of some things might occur again. Please don't tutor me on what STABLE should be, I think I know it myself as well as you do. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator VIA Net.Works The Netherlands BSD: Technical excellence at its best http://www.via-net-works.nl I believe because it is impossible... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message