AoE for 4.x

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 10:23:04AM +0000, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> But the commit to -current is always done before -stable, because
> FreeBSD (as a vendor) will not allow the backwards slippage that WOULD
> happen if we did not strictly enforce this.

s/WOULD happen if/HAS happened when/

For instance the NFS code was split into client and server portions in
2.x but not in 3.x and those changes were lost.  Peter did it all over
again in 5.x.

-- Brooks

> > Eventually I'll have patches against a -stable that's close enough
> > to a -current that the patch will apply to both.  I'm hoping 5.3
> > will be this way.
> 
> You will probably never have a better chance than 5.3.  My guess is that
> the next -stable branching (6.x-stable) will be at least two years in
> the future, and 5.4+-stable will be much further diverged from
> 6.0-current than 5.3-stable will be.
> 
> Please take this as friendly information; we have policies that we have
> to follow to keep the quality of FreeBSD high, and unfortunately these
> have to add some extra hardship for authors :-(
> 
> Eivind.
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