FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

[Damien Fleuriot]

On 1/20/12 2:59 PM, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ok good to know (and too bad for us running -RELEASE).

I guess at some point I'll have to study the possibility of us running
-STABLE, perhaps that would be acceptable.

Thanks for ensuring it'll be in 8.3 anyway :)