Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:45:22 +0200 From: Johan Karlsson <k@numeri.campus.luth.se> To: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> Cc: johan@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: When to close old PRs, Was: Re: kern/6854: [PATCH] probing brooktree849 capture card Message-ID: <200008221145.NAA47132@numeri.campus.luth.se> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:23:59 BST." <39A262CF.F8C5CE57@cs.strath.ac.uk>
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At Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:23:59 BST, Roger Hardiman wrote: > johan@FreeBSD.org wrote: > > > > Synopsis: [PATCH] probing brooktree849 capture card > > > Can I just check the policy for old PRs. > > The PR you emailed me about reports a bug in > FreeBSD 2.2.6 which is still there in FreeBSD 2.2.8-stable. > > However, in 3.x, 4.x and 5.x the problem was fixed. > > I presume we close the PR on the grounds that > users need to upgrade to fix the problem. > > Is that right? I am new as a PR grunt and therefore I have CC:ed -bugs since they might have opinions about this. I think that in this case it should be closed since it has been fixed in 3.x and later. And yes we always expect our users to upgrade to the latest supported release (or actively maintained branch) to get the latest bug fixes since that is more or less the only way to get them. If they do not want to upgrade they can sometimes manually apply the patches to there branch of choise. In general I think we can not expect our developers to deal with more than the latest Stable branch (4-Stable currently), and only occasionaly they will merge the stuff to older branches. 3.5(.1) was as far as I know the last release on RELENG_3 and therefore we soon can not expect the developers to actively maintain it. /Johan K To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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