Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 12:09:43 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Chuck Youse" <cyouse@cybersites.com>, "Justin Wolf" <jjwolf@bleeding.com> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Stability concerns in latest -STABLEs. Message-ID: <001201be98bd$29db4770$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905071155470.11179-100000@ns1.cybersites.com>
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What it seems to be is a rush to get patches into STABLE before a freeze causing stable to be less stable than usual. I hate to suggest another layer of abstraction, but perhaps STABLE should be 'frozen' for a bit near a freeze so causal STABLE users get actually STABLE code. A new branch could be made for code to be integrated back into STABLE once it has shaken out a bit in the context of the STABLE code. This problem gets worse the further apart STABLE and CURRENT are. Testing code in CURRENT doesn't tell you much if CURRENT is not at all like STABLE. This shows one of the disadvantages of FreeBSD's CVS-based development system versus the more usual release based model. A release is only made when code seems relatively solid. While cvsing the same tree at different times can produce widely varying results. DS > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Chuck Youse > Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 9:02 AM > To: Justin Wolf > Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Stability concerns in latest -STABLEs. > > > > > I guess this is a pretty lengthy 2-cents... you probably should > have just > > deleted it and moved along like I told you to. > > > > -Justin > > Quite the contrary, your comments just about hit the nail on the head. > Just understand my position; I've read some vague reports lately about > what look like filesystem race conditions and general instability that > might have been recently introduced .... > > I'm about to stick my neck out and the rash of postings just made me > nervous, 'tis all. > > Chuck Youse > Director of Systems > cyouse@cybersites.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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