From owner-cvs-all Wed Jun 28 19:50: 2 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.osd.bsdi.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 645C737C3D0; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 19:49:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA16422; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 19:50:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com) To: Doug Barton Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: backporting to 3.5 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:13:54 PDT." Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 19:50:23 -0700 Message-ID: <16419.962247023@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Is there going to be a policy regarding what to backport to 3.5? > My personal opinion is that if we backport too much we reduce the > users' motivation to move to ... Whatever people wish to back-port to it, within reason. Your personal opinion aside, we don't engage in social engineering around here by holding back fixes in attempt to force users to switch. There are some large commercial sites which only recently stopped using 2.2.8 and not everyone is or needs to be a revision-bumping junkie for FreeBSD. As to discouraging developers by doing so, I don't see that at all. Only developers who actively WANT to commit to the -stable branches do so. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message