From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 27 10: 2:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55F2837B479; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:02:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e9RH2Qf02760; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:02:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:02:26 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org, developers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! MFC's Message-ID: <20001027100225.F28123@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20001027184107.T5433@lucifer.bart.nl> <20001027094613.E28123@fw.wintelcom.net> <20001027185310.V5433@lucifer.bart.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20001027185310.V5433@lucifer.bart.nl>; from jruigrok@via-net-works.nl on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 06:53:10PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven [001027 09:53] wrote: > -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. That's understandable, and if things are proceeding as normal then there's no reason for potentially creating panic for the users. However, if there's an 'MFC rush' then I think that's not the right way to go about doing it. > 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. Again, if you are _sure_ that there will be problems then please don't, if you aren't _sure_ then there's no reason to make people fear the next release. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message