Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 19:47:30 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stable branch Message-ID: <20001007194730.T38472@jade.chc-chimes.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20001007161924.00b72460@207.227.119.2>; from jeff-ml@mountin.net on Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 04:45:49PM -0500 References: <3175.970802405@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> <3175.970802405@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <20001006180148.B29088@futuresouth.com> <4.3.2.20001007161924.00b72460@207.227.119.2>
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On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 04:45:49PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:
> Then you might want to consider doing all the extra work involved in such a
> scheme or buy a lot of gifts for those that must then commit to 6 branches
> for 3.x and 3 (so far) for 4.x, etc. You seem to have completely missed
> Jordan's point this time and his previous point on wishing that commiters
> were better at merging stuff back from -current.
Speaking as a {lazy,busy} committer: Mergeing to one branch is a pain, mergeing
to multiple branches is even worse. Merging to RELENG_4_1, RELENG_4_2 etc
means I would have to have a machine with the latest -STABLE of those branches,
which is something I doubt I'll have every permutation of...
BUT
If all we did was merge critical security "oh-my-god" type fixes into those
branches I'd be all for it (I'm not taking into account the CVS hell this
would make in our RCS files, however..).
--
Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc.
billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org
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