From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jun 23 1:58:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.wanadoo.nl (larry.euronet.nl [194.134.35.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C4F237B401 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 01:58:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steveo@eircom.net) Received: from ams-gw.sohara.org (p1505.vcu.wanadoo.nl [194.134.170.230]) by smtp.wanadoo.nl (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f5N8nrj14403; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 10:49:54 +0200 (MEST) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 10:49:51 +0200 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: "David A. Panariti" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD Message-Id: <20010623104951.5bd243ea.steveo@eircom.net> In-Reply-To: <200106221621.f5MGL2435108@baloo.ne.mediaone.net> References: <200106221621.f5MGL2435108@baloo.ne.mediaone.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.4.99cvs3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-unknown-freebsdelf4.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:21:02 -0400 "David A. Panariti" wrote: DP> The only issue I see is when a RELENG_X_Y appears after an DP> RELENG_X+1_Z has begun. My choice is highest X wins. Since the Not all will agree with this choice. (RELENG_X+1_Z represents the best that can be done with feature set X+1 which may not suit someone who only needs feature set X or even X-1). DP> Like I said before, I would be more than happy to do it myself, if I DP> had programmatic access to all tags. Here's an "AI" program to make DP> the "decision": CVS does not lend itself to automagic tags (look into the cvs documentation) so the only way is to run a script to move the tag around. You might just as well use a script or accept that it is really rather pointless automating a trivial task that gets performed once every few months. If you really want to do this keep your own copy of the repository and tag it yourself with a script just after the cvsup run. Make a port of the script and send-pr it in for anyone else who wants to. DP> And regardless, this is a stream *I* would track, so it is not DP> 100% wrong. Somehow you have to decide or codify rules for the jump in either first or second place. It is not a trivial decision and it is far from clear that the same rule will apply for every release so making it a manual decision is really a *good* idea. -- Directable Mirrors - A Better Way To Focus The Sun http://www.best.com/~sohara To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message