On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Lionel Cons <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10 October 2013 14:28, Simon Toedt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Lionel Cons <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> On 9 October 2013 17:46, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> the AT&T Software Technology ast alpha 2013-10-10 source release
>>>> has been posted to the download site
>>>>         http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/alpha/
>>>> the package names and md5 checksums are
>>>>             INIT  63bd36aef7833ab08b8c3b381e412c8a
>>>>         ast-base  1c26b780b153d9e35cea978ccbfdcea1
>>>>         ast-open  9221f5411ff69665186a7d328445c75a
>>>>          ast-gpl  c29ca45ed1fd62ed336d178c83c418c0
>>>>          ast-ksh  612793fe34837a0d409d6cf360dcb01c
>>>>        ast-jmake  3a4975ca9fd9e7d6f4749ae7f9cf8238
>>>> the md5 sums should match the ones listed on the download page
>>>>
>>>> the last day at at&t for { dgk gsf } is 2013-10-10
>>>> this will be the last at&t post by us
>>>> for the immediate future ek will be handling ast opensource posts
>>>> { dgk gsf } will forward changes to ek for future posts
>>>> this is not an ideal situation -- there are plans to remedy this
>>>> with { git bugzilla } or equivalents -- but first we have to land
>>>> on our feet outside of at&t
>>>>
>>>> for completeness the alpha download page contains some packages
>>>> that haven't been posted in a while
>>>>
>>>> changes since 2013-09-26
>>>>
>>>> :::::::: bgp ::::::::
>>>>
>>>> 13-10-10 bgp-mrt.c: fix STATE_BGP_TABLE to parse all attr() before nlri()
>>>>
>>>> :::::::: ksh93 ::::::::
>>>>
>>>> 13-10-08  --- Release ksh93v- ---
>>>> 13-10-08  The shell arithmetic now recognized suffices f,F, l, and L for
>>>>           floating point constants.
>>>> 13-10-07  The shell now prints an error message on standard error when a
>>>>           job specified with %job does not exist.
>>>> 13-10-04  A bug in the value of i.MAX inside an arithmetic expression when 
>>>> the
>>>>           variable i is unsigned long has been fixed.
>>>>
>>>> :::::::: libast ::::::::
>>>>
>>>> 13-09-27 path/pathcanon.c: fix buffer clobber bug between pathdev() and 
>>>> fgetcwd()
>>>> 13-09-27 path/pathopen.c: handle easy O_XATTR case for /dev/fd open() 
>>>> semantics
>>>>
>>>> :::::::: mailx ::::::::
>>>>
>>>> 13-10-01 mailx: add autosign to auto sign new messages
>>>>
>>>> :::::::: std ::::::::
>>>>
>>>> 13-09-26 split.c: fix opetget() docs
>>>
>>> There are a lot of patches missing which have been submitted in the
>>> past (e.g. getconf XATTR_EXISTS or getconf -f to deal with probing
>>> file descriptors).
>>>
>>> Now that this has happened *very* often - this is not the first time
>>> I've been observing this - is there a reason for this or just a row of
>>> oversights? From Jan - Aug 2013 less than 30% of the patches submitted
>>> have been included in ast.
>>
>> Well, that is pretty much the reason why a lot of people like Debian
>> or Suse gave up pushing patches to upstream ('ATT'). Patches are
>> submitted but deliberately ignored.
>
> No no, I don't think its done deliberately,

But It happens so often that its IMHO either a symptom of total
disorganization or total ignorance. Sure, accidents happen, but that
option is only valid if something is a rare occasion. This issue isn't
rare, it's a habit.

Simon
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