Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 16:27:20 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/finger finger.c Message-ID: <20001003162720.D51546@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200010031800.MAA27859@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 12:00:57PM -0600 References: <39DA182C.C70ED553@originative.co.uk> <39D98B55.126DAFC4@originative.co.uk> <200010022227.PAA62603@freefall.freebsd.org> <39D92E08.E00CF2E4@owp.csus.edu> <20001002180303.A40584@freefall.freebsd.org> <39D98B55.126DAFC4@originative.co.uk> <200010031530.JAA26493@harmony.village.org> <20001003124008.A4892@netmonger.net> <39DA182C.C70ED553@originative.co.uk> <200010031800.MAA27859@harmony.village.org>
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On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 12:00:57PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <39DA182C.C70ED553@originative.co.uk> Paul Richards writes:
> : I think we should have a stable release team, that changes to the stable
> : branch should be gated through to ensure they're thouroughly tested and
> : that there's a need for them to be backported. I'd be happy to work with
> : anyone else who wants to volunteer to do that since maintaining a stable
> : version of the OS is a major issue for me with my new hat on.
>
> I'd support this strongly, both as Warner Losh, Committer and as
> Warner Losh, Security Officer. My current job uses -stable and needs
> to have it be sane at "all"[*] times, or we waste a lot of effort
> bringing in and backing out unstable versions (we do some sanity
> testing before bringing a version in, but there's only so much you can
> do).
I think a formal MFC process may be too stifling, unless we have a
VERY responsive MFC team. Consider that we don't want the same thing
to happen as did with 3.x, where 4.0-CURRENT was allowed to diverge so
much that merging bugfixes became difficult.
I'd settle for committers being more cautious about merging their own
changes and self-managing the process better.
Kris
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