Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:42:36 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AoE for 4.x Message-ID: <20040924174236.GC6672@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040924102303.GF61631@FreeBSD.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0409211531450.32120@athena> <41508FEB.6030203@elischer.org> <Pine.LNX.4.60.0409231044380.19882@athena> <20040923191423.GE61631@FreeBSD.org> <Pine.LNX.4.60.0409231519030.19882@athena> <20040924102303.GF61631@FreeBSD.org>
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--w7PDEPdKQumQfZlR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 10:23:04AM +0000, Eivind Eklund wrote: > But the commit to -current is always done before -stable, because > FreeBSD (as a vendor) will not allow the backwards slippage that WOULD > happen if we did not strictly enforce this. s/WOULD happen if/HAS happened when/ For instance the NFS code was split into client and server portions in 2.x but not in 3.x and those changes were lost. Peter did it all over again in 5.x. -- Brooks > > Eventually I'll have patches against a -stable that's close enough > > to a -current that the patch will apply to both. I'm hoping 5.3 > > will be this way. >=20 > You will probably never have a better chance than 5.3. My guess is that > the next -stable branching (6.x-stable) will be at least two years in > the future, and 5.4+-stable will be much further diverged from > 6.0-current than 5.3-stable will be. >=20 > Please take this as friendly information; we have policies that we have > to follow to keep the quality of FreeBSD high, and unfortunately these > have to add some extra hardship for authors :-( >=20 > Eivind. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --w7PDEPdKQumQfZlR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBVFyLXY6L6fI4GtQRAngmAKC+f1X/Zd/OkKB8o2TiMaoo3yLQewCfd0go m4tsQhY2hFctwRgfvx3yTVE= =IcQk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --w7PDEPdKQumQfZlR--
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