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Date:      Wed, 2 Apr 2014 21:43:28 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Torbjorn Granlund <tg@gmplib.org>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Downplaying a serious issue
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1404022118570.76387@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <861txffcgh.fsf@shell.gmplib.org>

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On Thu, 3 Apr 2014, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:

> I notice that you seriously downplay the filesystem malfunctioning issue
> of FreeBSD/i386 10.0 (and its many betas).

Do we?  What should it say?  Please be specific, preferably in the form 
of a PR.  Is this really a doc problem?

> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/errata.html
>
> This is not specific to some weird hardware.  It is not specific to
> virtualbox.  As I have reported (and been shouted down) it happens under
> KVM and Xen.  It happens under Xen+Linux as well as Xen+NetBSD.

Please post links to those reports.

> FreeBSD is becoming strange.  I've been using every release since 1.1,
> and have liked it.  Now it is unstable, critical bug reports are
> ignored, serious problems are being downplayed, the compiler is
> terrible.  Did Apple money corrupt a great project?

If you have had rude treatment from someone in the project, I apologize. 
Insulting and accusing the rest of us is not likely to produce good 
results.  Most of us are volunteers, and hard enough to motivate even 
without resentment.


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