ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

[Karl Denninger]

On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 10:15:20PM +0300, Reko Turja wrote:
> From: "Karl Denninger" <karl at denninger.net>
> To: <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 9:39 PM
> >Yes it is, in the general case; in any event if you track RELENG_6_1 
> >you will
> >get no bug fixes in general - security related items to filter back 
> >down but
> >in general bug reports posted against a -RELEASE are, if addressed, 
> >put into
> >-STABLE.
> 
> You would like untested fixes to hit the release version first? By the 
> way, possible breakage of STABLE due MFC process was announced a good 
> while ago...

No, I would like -STABLE to be treated as what it is claimed to be - BETA
code, not ALPHA code.

There's a huge difference between the two, and MFCing something back to
-STABLE without testing the <BASIC> functionality of the module you're working
with first does not fit the BETA model (it DOES fit the Alpha model.)

This is coming from someone who has run FreeBSD in a production environment
for basically 10 years, and has even sometimes used -CURRENT during that time
(with full knowledge that running THAT is, indeed, ALPHA code!)

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