On Thursday, December 01, 2011 5:23:32 pm Andriy Gapon wrote: > 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.
Yes, but without EN's there is no currently supported release a user can use to get this bug fix. I still think we are too hesitant to merge EN's. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ 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"
