Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 16:53:22 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@citusc.usc.edu> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Stable branch Message-ID: <20001007165322.A17115@citusc17.usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1001007184421.85778A-100000@fledge.watson.org>; from rwatson@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 06:51:23PM -0400 References: <4.3.2.20001007161924.00b72460@207.227.119.2> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1001007184421.85778A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 06:51:23PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > You seem to misunderstand. No one is asking the majority of committers to > commit to the release branches--in fact, that was specifically > *prohibited* in the recommendation of a branch for each release. These > branches would only exist for the purposes of release-related activity > (modify the version numbers in the release branch, not the -STABLE > branch), emergency back-ports during and immediately after the release > itself, ERRATA entries for the release,and for security bugfixes. No new > features. No new documentation work. Show stopper fixes only. You know, I'm starting to think this could actually work. I have no idea of the impact it would have on CVS though - Peter? Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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