Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 23:19:37 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> To: Udo Schweigert <ust@cert.siemens.de> Cc: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, Gavin Cameron <gavin@itworks.com.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What does -RC mean? was: Re: Stable broken Message-ID: <672.964160377@localhost> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:33:05 %2B0200." <20000720093305.A367@alaska.cert.siemens.de>
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> Anyway: it is a little bit annoying that the -stable branch keeps to be broke Yes, it's annoying. No, it wasn't supposed to happen. Yes, this is a special case. There is usually always at least one right before a major release, and the main criteria is deciding what the risk/reward ratio is going to be for gating it in vs leaving people with whatever version will ship without the quick "under the wire" merge. In this case, Darren messed up pretty badly here and I'm sure he feels bad about it. We're all human and this kind of thing does happen occasionally, especially in open source projects where volunteers are usually working a full-time job in addition to their work for the project. Learn from the mistakes made and move on is all we can do at this point. Even with the breakage, it was a reasonable call given the extremely outdated nature of the currently shipping ipfilter code and the fact that we've been trying to, erm, _strongly encourage_ Darren to take real, hands-on ownership of his software in the FreeBSD CVS tree for some time now. Even if his timing could have been a lot better and his CVS procedures more correct, it's still a win if we've now managed to convince Darren that his IPFilter software and his personal maintenance of it are important enough to FreeBSD that we were willing to suffer even this level of pain to incorporate it into 4.1. It's certainly my hope that Darren will now maintain IPFilter a little more consistently (thus avoiding any need to slip anything in at the last moment) and in ways that don't break the tree. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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