Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 08:31:33 +0100 From: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu>, Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/finger finger.c Message-ID: <39D98B55.126DAFC4@originative.co.uk> References: <200010022227.PAA62603@freefall.freebsd.org> <39D92E08.E00CF2E4@owp.csus.edu> <20001002180303.A40584@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 05:53:28PM -0700, Joseph Scott wrote: > > > but it seems to point to this "feature" being added somewhere between > > Jan 27 and Sep 14 (about the last world builds for these two > > machines). > > It was added just before 4.1.1, and since finger runs as user nobody It's about as good as an example as there can be as to why things should be left to mature in -current for a decent length of time before being moved over to what is supposed to be a stable branch. Code may look like it's working after a few days or a few weeks but it really needs to *mature* before it can be claimed to be stable. I think we push too many enhancements from current to stable, when we should really only push bug fixes onto the stable branch. The tendency to add enhancements carries the risk of actually creating new bugs in stable which is obviously not what we want to have happen. Paul Richards FreeBSD Services Ltd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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