> I think the answer is obviously, long time testing and monitoring. > But you can have a -STABLE that is reliable and *critical* patches are > applied quickly. I believe that this is what mostly this thread is about.
I refer the honourable gentleman to his above comment `long time testing and monitoring'. How can you have patches applied quickly and also have long time testing necessary to assure everyone that it is not going to break somethign way-over-there. That is my understanding of the difference between RELEASE and STABLE. Releases have intensive testing as an integrated whole. Of course it all comes down to what is considered critical. The bind fixes went in quickly because they filled big holes in many instlations and are relatively isolated. A fix to somethign deep in ther kernel which is not biteing many people? ^_^ (O O) \_/@@\ \\~~/ ~~ - RJC To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message