On Jun 5, 2008, at 5:51 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
If the exact regression between 6.2 and 6.3 can be tracked down, great.
If it's in a specific driver, CVS commit logs or cvsweb will come in
handy.  Otherwise, if it's some larger piece of code ("ohai i revamped
the intrupt handlar!"), chances of finding it are slimmer.  I'm a bit
disappointed that Jo hasn't explicitly mentioned what's broken in 6.3
that's affecting him, because that might help everyone. Heck, I'll even add it to my Commonly reported issue wiki page. PRs would be good, but
I'll gladly take past mailing list discussions.

I will start a new thread with the specific issues that concern my environment upon my return. I'd like to keep the specific issues separate from the overall policy question, because they are very different in my mind.

Jo's opinion is reasonable, but the bottom line is that the FreeBSD
Project folks will always win the argument once the "it's best-effort"
trump card is played; the convo has to end once it's on the table.

Yes, but it often gets played too often too fast. It's worth having a discussion of the policy goals. I'm not saying that this isn't the very best that FreeBSD can do -- maybe it is. I just couldn't find any documentation of why dropping 6.2 makes a lot of sense, so I was hoping to get a clear answer for that.

--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness


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