Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 16:42:37 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@hub.freebsd.org>, Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, 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: <20001003164236.Q27736@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200010032326.e93NQ7H17213@netplex.com.au>; from peter@netplex.com.au on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:26:07PM -0700 References: <20001003155638.B73409@hub.freebsd.org> <200010032326.e93NQ7H17213@netplex.com.au>
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* Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> [001003 16:30] wrote: > Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > > Uh. If only the "-stable" team were allowed to commit to -stable, > > then it would quickly become the -stale branch. I think that we had > > this at one point with 3.X, and there were lots of complaints. > > Yes, this is what happened with 3.x and it was a disaster. We must not > let this happen again. > There's a large difference between kernel and userland here, kernel changes need to be backported relatively quickly while userland can allow for a longer test period. Seperate policies may serve us better than one that covers the entire tree. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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