Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 13:45:00 -0700 From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com> To: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists_nada@tx.rr.com> Subject: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 Message-ID: <1C8F6344-4D0B-415C-895C-549A0B4F9C05@netconsonance.com> In-Reply-To: <20080605155340.GA51833@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> References: <9B7FE91B-9C2E-4732-866C-930AC6022A40@netconsonance.com> <48472DB6.5030909@samsco.org> <6010676B-91B0-4AF8-ACF8-039A59B29331@netconsonance.com> <200806050248.59229.max@love2party.net> <B9B83C12-7130-490D-A4BE-0469711B24DC@netconsonance.com> <20080605083907.GD1028@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <902E9703E6E50776A17E9F92@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <20080605155340.GA51833@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Jun 5, 2008, at 8:53 AM, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > So he should at least be able to name the relevant PRs. > Or name at least one. Then nobody would complain. I'm sure somebody would complain ;-) but yeah, valid. Unfortunately I was on my 3rd day of less than 3 hours sleep and had to leave in less than 9 hours from my post, with 12 hours of work to do before then. I really honestly didn't have the time. I wanted to hold the post until I returned, but last time I did that I got dozens of accusations of sitting on it and speaking sooner, etc etc. I was hoping in my wishes-were-horses brain that someone would provide some insight into the issues that made obsoleting 6.2 a good idea, so that on my return I could determine how best to focus my efforts. > But stating "it's all well documented" without providing evidence > doesn't help. I for one was not able to find any open PRs that > deal specifically with 3ware hardware and 6.3, but not 6.[0-2]. ... > Agreed, but he should name the PRs he's referring to. > You know, my crystal ball is at the shop for a check, and > it seems like everybody else's is, too. Because focusing on the specifics never helps with policy issues. Every time I raise a policy issue and someone asks for specific bugs relevant, I answer them and the overall policy issue degrades into the merits of the specific problem, and usually into insults from people who don't understand why I don't replace X piece of hardware. The overall policy question gets lost. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1C8F6344-4D0B-415C-895C-549A0B4F9C05>