From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 7 19:48:22 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A70FB1065675 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 19:48:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) Received: from mail.netconsonance.com (mail.netconsonance.com [198.207.204.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 947A98FC15 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 19:48:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) Received: from 4.151.178.10.in-addr.arpa (m420e36d0.tmodns.net [208.54.14.66]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.netconsonance.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m57JmERX059967; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 12:48:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at netconsonance.com X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.043 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.043 tagged_above=-999 required=3.5 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.44, AWL=-0.134, TVD_RCVD_IP=1.617] Message-Id: From: Jo Rhett To: Adrian Chadd In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 12:48:08 -0700 References: <9B7FE91B-9C2E-4732-866C-930AC6022A40@netconsonance.com> <4846D849.2090005@FreeBSD.org> <20080604204325.GD4701@lava.net> <20080604234532.GA89656@k7.mavetju> <458FE12C-AE4D-48F9-8193-4663079CEEF8@netconsonance.com> <84EBEA5D3A1F47E79E8E12C4CF4D0314@multiplay.co.uk> <7B8FD1A1E7DA49DFA68252BF9C74AE6F@multiplay.co.uk> <1A050712-3D0F-4263-A9F8-EE4AD042486E@netconsonance.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.924) Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:48:22 -0000 On Jun 5, 2008, at 4:34 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > If its of major concern for you, then allocate some man hours, grab > the /usr/src/sys diffs between RELENG_6_2_0_RELEASE and > RELENG_6_3_0_RELEASE. > > The others on the list have stated over and over again that they > haven't seen any issues and would like to know precisely what they > are. While I appreciate their concern for the specifics, I think those should be addressed in another thread. This thread was meant to question the overall stability issues that pretty much anyone can view for themselves in the freebsd-questions/hardware/scsi mailing lists and queries in the open bug reports. > If stability is your main concern then you could throw some resources > at fixing 6.3 or throw some resources at backporting security fixes to > 6.2. I will apparently be backporting the security fixes myself until 6.4 ships. > I'm sure noone has an agenda to squish the FreeBSD version you're > using for any reason other than there aren't enough people > volunteering / being paid to work on back-porting security fixes. This is perhaps the real topic that needs to be addressed. Can we get some more details on the issues involved here? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness