On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 05:22:16PM -0500, Mark Felder wrote: > Honestly, the thought that this can easily affect other people with > lots of network statements in OSPF is pretty scary, and the thought > of running -current is equally scary.
You do not need to run current. If a problem is found, and fixed, you can use cvs to see what they did to fix it, get a diff and apply it to your stable release. It might require a little work on your part but you're supposed to know how to do those things I guess :-) This is what open source and access to sources is all about. In the proprietary world, you buy a product. And you do not get access to sources. You do not get a view to what their developpers are doing, daily, to their sources. And if you have a problem, you have to wait. Wait for a patch, or be told you need a new release (that will include a price, too, for something that obviously is a bug and should be fixed for free since it's not an improvement but a bug fix). Those people are working for free. They give you a free product, with no license cost nor cost except download time, you're not even forced to buy a CD. They not only offer you a free product, they give you the right to do anything with it. Even make a closed product from it, or do changes you keep for yourself. Not only it's free in getting is, using it, but they also give you a free access to the current sources, and you can daily see what they do change. And you are also able to get a diff for free for anything they do, and apply it or do whatever you want with it. What more do you want ? One of them to take a plane, come to your company for free, and work there all day and night until the problem is fixed ? Seriously ? And why didn't you come to us in the mailing list with a patch for the problem ? You are not running current and don't want to run current ? Grab the changes from the CVS and backport them to 4.9-stable. Then, give us the patch so everyone like you using stable can have the fix without moving to current. This is what you should have done : give us a patch for stable if that's what matters to you. What we wait from you now, is that patch. And I guess the project developers are waiting for something else : apologies. (why do you put theo in Cc ? he does read the list, you realize you are sending him twice your message ?) -- Gilbert Fernandes
