>> point, we shouldn't be merging stuff back into the -stable branch, only fix >> specific straightforward problems that don't require complete >> re-engineering. > >No new features means stagnation in development. It means that someone >coming to FreeBSD and looking for a feature will only find it in -current, >which, by virtue of being -current, will have other miscellaneous problems. >This person gets annoyed and leaves.
Sorry, but this just isn't how our development model has worked over the past 6 years. -stable means it and we are not going to change that. -current is for new features. The only new features that are added to -stable are those which don't affect existing functionality and architectural changes are to be avoid as much as possible. This has been a winning model for us and we're not going to change it. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
