FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins.

Kurt Jaeger pi at freebsd.org
Wed May 15 15:38:41 UTC 2019


Hi!

> > > PR headline : "FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins."
> > > 
> > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2019-May/date.html
> > > 
> > > Volunteers who contribute actual fixes are very much appreciated;
> > > But those styled as 'management' who delay announcements to batch floods
> > > damage us.
> > 
> > 8 announcements and one freebsd-update is easier on the
> > admin and the re-team than 8 announcements and 8 freebsd-update runs.
> > 
> > That's probably why they are batched. Because all of the fixes
> > are bundled in one update.
> > 
> > If the re-team-capacity is limited, what would be the alternative?

> Alternative is to for announcers to do Less work: 
> Send each announcement when ready.

The problem is not the announcement, the problem is providing
the freebsd-update.

If announcements are send when ready, and the freebsd-update is
not ready, therefore, the timeframes to attack systems with unpatched
problems are much longer.

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