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Date:      Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:19:02 -0700
From:      Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To:        Trent Nelson <trent@snakebite.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: The MFC process...
Message-ID:  <CAF6rxgkrb9yjn9bU7U03NHjRZhMDfOhhm_yNtB-cgHahG4zfwQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CC2A472D.325E3%trent@snakebite.org>
References:  <CC2A472D.325E3%trent@snakebite.org>

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On 16 July 2012 19:33, Trent Nelson <trent@snakebite.org> wrote:
>
> There are currently no automated MFC systems in place, correct?  I.e. the
> onus is completely on the developer that made the change to head to merge
> back to stable?

Correct.

> Do the RELENG team do anything in particular to check
> that changes for MFC actually make it back to stable?

As far as I am aware, they do not.

> Reason for asking, I noticed a bit of disparity between dev/isp between
> head and stable/9:
>
...

> I'm currently running a local tree with those revs merged in manually
> (simply via `svn merge svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/dev/isp .` in
> /usr/src/sys/dev/isp), but it'd be nice to get them into 9.1, as they're
> all past their recommend soak time (except for that last one, which is a
> typo fix).

We are currently in a code freeze for 9.1 so no unapproved MFCs may be
committed.

> Anyway, that got me thinking about the MFC process, especially leading up
> to another release, hence this e-mail.  What's the preferred way for
> non-committers to bring outstanding MFCs to the attention of committers?

Exactly the way you did it here: a polite email. :)

-- 
Eitan Adler



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