FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins.

[Kurt Jaeger]

Hi!

> > > 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.

> True as far as that goes for binary users, but often source patches
> are available faster, which begs the question: when to announce ?
> When there's diffs ? When diffs are commited to src/ (used to be the norm *) ?
> When there's some binary update ? 
> Whne a whole bunch of 8 arrive in 3 minutes ? Gasp !

Now I understand why you bring this up.

I guess the majority of users are using the binary update path.

Maybe re@ can explain how the process is for these steps ?

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