on 01/12/2011 23:42 John Baldwin said the following: > On Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:59:54 am Mark Saad wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> On 11/30/2011 14:52, Rick Macklem wrote: >>>> I'm relatively new to FreeBSD, but I've never heard of an MFC to a >>>> Release branch. (As far as I know, if it ever happens, it's for a >>>> serious errata or security issue.) >>> >>> You are correct sir. :) >>> >> So how would I ever see this in an official release as an errata fix ? > > At this point you likely won't. The vast majority of patches to releases are > only for security advisories. Very few errata are merged back to releases > currently. It may be that we are too hesitant to do so, but the manpower > overhead of actually getting the changes merged back and getting appropriate > folks to sign off on everything is extremely high (and the exact process for > getting an EN approved is not very clear or really even documented to my > knowledge). >
Just to clarify - the fix will be in the future (official) releases from 8, 9 and so on branches. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
