FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

[Gleb Smirnoff]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 02:43:55PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
D> Don't be mistaken, I greatly appreciate the work you put into this and
D> the time you devoted to fixing this issue which was *a real annoyance*
D> in our case.
D> 
D> I'm not saying you didn't merge it Gleb, I'm saying for a loooooooong
D> time I had to manually patch the 8.2-RELEASE boxes, because for some
D> reason that I don't know/understand, the patch couldn't (and still
D> hasn't been, I guess) be merged with 8.2-RELEASE.
D> 
D> Actually, on topic, what prevents patches from being merged with
D> -RELEASE, as opposed to waiting for a new -RELEASE bump ?

It cannot be merged into RELEASE! RELEASE is a point on a branch,
as soon as RELEASE had been released, you can't push anything into
it, unless you have a time machine.

So, the fix has been merged to the branch you reported problem on,
this means that it'll be available in the next release from this
branch - in 8.3-RELEASE.

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