From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 24 18:22:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9918937B405; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:22:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2P2MdYm016150; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:22:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2P2LO1C016128; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:21:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:21:24 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Robert Watson Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: turning off malloc's AJ by default Message-ID: <20020324182124.C15939@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020324103200.B8262@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 01:59:56PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 01:59:56PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > The goal of DP's is to increase exposure of the development branch in some > key audiences, including the developer community, and community of early > adopters. Part of the discussion that lead up to deciding to follow > through on the DP plan was the perception that many FreeBSD non-kernel > developers are not running 5.0, and that 5.0 had a "fear" element that > didn't seem to match with reality. A part of addressing this is to > provide a window into which 4.x developers can try out 5.x with a lower > level of risk: this is why we had something that resembled a code slush, > and why when greenvm was committed during the code slush, we actually > backed it out of the DP branch (it was later also backed out of the main > development branch). We want to provide a stable and usable version of > 5.0, in as much as that is possible, to provide access to the new > features, services, APIs, etc. We want a reproduceable install that ports > developers can use to learn more about the changing 5.0 environment, among > other things. There is nothing in the above that motivates turning off 'AJ' and INVARIANTS. Please address these two issues based on the above which I do think is what was generally agreed as the motivation for the DP. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message