FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins.

[Will Andrews]

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 10:45 AM Julian H. Stacey <jhs at berklix.com> wrote:

> Batching also means some of these vulnerabilities could have been
> fixed earlier & less of a surge of demand on recipient admins time.
>
> An admin can find time to ameliorate 1 bug, not 8 suddenly together.
> Avoidance is called planning ahead. Giving warning of a workload.
> Like an admin plans ahead & announces an outage schedule for planned
> upgrade.
>
> Suddenly dumping 8 on admins causes overload on admin manpower.
> 8 reason for users to approach admin in parallel & say
> "FreeBSD seems riddled, how long will all the sudden unplanned
>  outages take ?  Should we just dump it ?"
> Dont want negative PR & lack of management.
>

What admins prefer 8 downtime events instead of 1?

--Will.