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[Alexander Motin]

On 24.04.2011 14:00, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Alexander Motin wrote:
>>> Are you going to address that on updating magic will make it work
>>> within the next 2-4 weeks?
>>
>> s/ad[0-9]+/ada0/ should fit 90%. A bit more sophisticated script
>> should fit most. In what place should I put that magic?
>>
>>> If you will not then thanks for screwing 50% of our users and please
>>> back this out again.
>>
>> Reverting is not an option. _Constructive_ propositions are welcome.
>
> It is the policy of this project that the release engineering team has
> final authority over what ships in a release. It is entirely within
> scope to revert this change for 9.0 if issues with the upgrade path are
> not addressed. My hope also that this path can be entirely avoided
> through a rapid addressing of upgrade path issues that have been known
> (and discussed on the mailing lists extensively) since you posted about
> the work on the public mailing lists.
>
> I agree with Bjoern that it is critical to address these issues in a
> timely manner -- our users depend on reliable and easy upgrades, and it
> seems (on face value) that significant work remains to be done to make
> that possible. Our release is increasingly close, and it's important we
> keep the tree as stable as possible so that merges of other straggling
> features can go uneventfully.

I am asking for excuse if my tone was overly strict. It was not my real 
intention to offend anybody. May be inside I am indeed overreacting a 
bit on proposition to revert with no alternative things that I have put 
my heart into, which are broadly accepted by users, which I announced on 
the list few days ago and got no objections. I am sorry for that.

I do worry about possible complications during migration process. And 
obviously this is not an easy question, as soon as it wasn't solved 
during so much time. I will gladly accept any help or real ideas people 
can provide. I just don't like to feel it my own problem. I am not doing 
it for myself. It would be nice to see some friendly support instead.

Thank you.

-- 
Alexander Motin