Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Royce Williams
John's trying to manage risk.  Switching from RELEASE to CURRENT adds a lot of risk and churn, when most folks in this class of use case just need a few very specific drivers and bugfixes (what some OSes call hotfixes.) John sounds willing to trade a little bit of local risk (and testing time) in

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 1/16/12 11:28 PM, John Kozubik wrote: Friends, I was disappointed to see that 8.3-RELEASE is now slated to come out in March of 2012. This will be ~13 months since 8.2-RELEASE and is typical of a trend towards longer gaps between minor releases. I also see that undercutting the

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 17/01/2012 00:28 John Kozubik said the following: we going to run RELEASE software ONLY My opinion: you've put yourself in a box that is not very compatible with the current FreeBSD release strategy. With your scale and restrictions you probably should just use the FreeBSD source and roll

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Atom Smasher
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Yuri wrote: On 01/16/2012 17:03, Atom Smasher wrote: i bought myself a LENOVO T510 when it first came out, around early 2010. it's got an i5 CPU and Arrandale GPU. it's two years old and on freeBSD i STILL can't run xorg properly with it. linux has run fine with it

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Ivan Voras
(answering out of order) On 16/01/2012 23:28, John Kozubik wrote: 2) Having two simultaneous production releases draws focus away from both of them, and keeps any release from ever truly maturing. This isn't how things work. The -CURRENT always has (and probably always had and always will

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Ivan Voras
On 17/01/2012 07:20, John Kozubik wrote: as wonderful as ZFS on FreeBSD is (and we are deploying it this year) it is only now (well, in March) with 8.3 that I feel it is finally safe and stable enough to bet the farm on. I'm not the only one that feels this way. I must remember to ask you

Re: Processes' FIBs

2012-01-17 Thread Oliver Fromme
Kostik Belousov kostik...@gmail.com wrote: The patch misses compat32 bits and breaks compat32 ps/top. Right, thank you for pointing it out! I missed it because I only have i386 for testing. I've created new patch sets for releng8 and current. These include compat32 support and an entry for

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: I've concluded very early that because of what I've said above, the only way to run FreeBSD effectively is to track -STABLE. The developers MFC-ing stuff usually try hard not to break things so -STABLE has become a sort of

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Ivan Voras
On 17 January 2012 13:02, Tom Evans tevans...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: I've concluded very early that because of what I've said above, the only way to run FreeBSD effectively is to track -STABLE. The developers MFC-ing stuff

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Atom Smasher
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, richo wrote: This would be a different argument if all the devs were paid a salary. == what percentage of linux devs are on salary to develop linux? -- ...atom http://atom.smasher.org/ 762A 3B98 A3C3 96C9 C6B7 582A B88D

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Ivan Voras
On 17/01/2012 07:32, Atom Smasher wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, richo wrote: This would be a different argument if all the devs were paid a salary. == what percentage of linux devs are on salary to develop linux? Apparently, 3/4: http://apcmag.com/linux-now-75-corporate.htm

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Igor Mozolevsky
On 17 January 2012 13:44, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 17/01/2012 07:32, Atom Smasher wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, richo wrote: This would be a different argument if all the devs were paid a salary. == what percentage of linux devs are on salary to develop linux?

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Ivan Voras
On 17 January 2012 14:49, Igor Mozolevsky i...@hybrid-lab.co.uk wrote: On 17 January 2012 13:44, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 17/01/2012 07:32, Atom Smasher wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, richo wrote: This would be a different argument if all the devs were paid a salary.

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Igor Mozolevsky
On 17 January 2012 14:20, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 17 January 2012 14:49, Igor Mozolevsky i...@hybrid-lab.co.uk wrote: On 17 January 2012 13:44, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 17/01/2012 07:32, Atom Smasher wrote: what percentage of linux devs are on salary to develop

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Mark Felder
Why is everyone so afraid of running -STABLE? Plenty of stuff gets MFC'd. Yeah, I agree -- running -RELEASE is difficult. Hell, it's frustrating to us that VMWare only supports -RELEASE and it took until ESX 5 to officially support 8.2! More releases / snapshots of -STABLE helps people on

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Chris Rees
On 17 Jan 2012 13:38, Atom Smasher a...@smasher.org wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, richo wrote: This would be a different argument if all the devs were paid a salary. == what percentage of linux devs are on salary to develop linux? You're not comparing like with like. Linux is

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Igor Mozolevsky i...@hybrid-lab.co.uk wrote: Actually, I don't think it's cash that's the problem. I think it is more to do with the lack of common goal: the way that releases are perceived, at least by me, are that a bunch of people play in current then at

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Igor Mozolevsky
On 17 January 2012 16:48, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Igor Mozolevsky i...@hybrid-lab.co.uk wrote: Actually, I don't think it's cash that's the problem. I think it is more to do with the lack of common goal: the way that releases are perceived, at

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Victor Balada Diaz
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 02:28:09PM -0800, John Kozubik wrote: Friends, I was disappointed to see that 8.3-RELEASE is now slated to come out in March of 2012. This will be ~13 months since 8.2-RELEASE and is typical of a trend towards longer gaps between minor releases. I also see

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 1/17/12 4:39 PM, Mark Felder wrote: Why is everyone so afraid of running -STABLE? Plenty of stuff gets MFC'd. Yeah, I agree -- running -RELEASE is difficult. Hell, it's frustrating to us that VMWare only supports -RELEASE and it took until ESX 5 to officially support 8.2! More releases

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Igor Mozolevsky
On 17 January 2012 15:39, Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: FreeBSD is increasingly becoming a third world citizen thanks to virtualization efforts being focused on Linux, so I feel that more frequent releases won't help as many people as you think. I would guess that for folks like VMWare, the

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread John Kozubik
Ivan, On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Ivan Voras wrote: 2) Having two simultaneous production releases draws focus away from both of them, and keeps any release from ever truly maturing. This isn't how things work. The -CURRENT always has (and probably always had and always will have) the focus of

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread John Kozubik
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Tom Evans wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: I've concluded very early that because of what I've said above, the only way to run FreeBSD effectively is to track -STABLE. The developers MFC-ing stuff usually try hard not to break

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread John Kozubik
Hi Ivan, Thanks for the insights below ... see my comments inline: On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Ivan Voras wrote: Ability to use freebsd-update. It would be better to have more frequent releases. As a prime example, ZFS became much more stable about 3 months after 8.2 was released. If you were

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread John Kozubik
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Mark Felder wrote: Why is everyone so afraid of running -STABLE? Plenty of stuff gets MFC'd. Yeah, I agree -- running -RELEASE is difficult. Hell, it's frustrating to us that VMWare only supports -RELEASE and it took until ESX 5 to officially support 8.2! More

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/16/12 10:20 PM, John Kozubik wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Steven Hartland wrote: I was disappointed to see that 8.3-RELEASE is now slated to come out in March of 2012. This will be ~13 months since 8.2-RELEASE and is typical of a trend towards longer gaps between minor releases. ...

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/16/12 10:29 PM, Atom Smasher wrote: so i guess that means that i'm tougher than a typical laptop user... and instead of making things easier, freeBSD is getting harder. thing is, when people don't play with freeBSD on laptops and desktops, then they grow up, get real jobs, and don't

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/17/12 10:08 AM, John Kozubik wrote: Hi Ivan, [...] Fair enough. Is it the case that if funds or manpower were made available, more releases would be workable ? Or are there some deeper cultural leanings toward having fewer minor releases ? sure if you or someone is willing to

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/17/12 7:39 AM, Mark Felder wrote: Why is everyone so afraid of running -STABLE? Plenty of stuff gets MFC'd. Yeah, I agree -- running -RELEASE is difficult. Hell, it's frustrating to us that VMWare only supports -RELEASE and it took until ESX 5 to officially support 8.2! More releases /

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Hugo Silva
On 01/17/12 12:42, Ivan Voras wrote: On 17 January 2012 13:02, Tom Evanstevans...@googlemail.com wrote: Almost certainly yes. The current release process involves src, ports and docs teams. Would you and other RELEASE users be happy with simple periodic snapshots off the STABLE branches, not

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/17/12 9:36 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 1/17/12 4:39 PM, Mark Felder wrote: Why is everyone so afraid of running -STABLE? Plenty of stuff gets MFC'd. Yeah, I agree -- running -RELEASE is difficult. Hell, it's frustrating to us that VMWare only supports -RELEASE and it took until ESX 5 to

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: John Kozubik j...@kozubik.com It's amazing how many people are in the exact same boats - waiting for 8.3, getting locked out of new motherboards because em(4) can't be backported to even the production release... This is not true, only last week did we

Re: Build Option Survey results

2012-01-17 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 07:45:34 +, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: Hey, after two years I had the opportunity to run the build option survey, initially done by phk, again. The number of options seems to have grown quite a bit it felt. I have not even looked at the results yet but here they are

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Tuesday 17 January 2012 20:54:51 Steven Hartland wrote: boot time fixes (disable memtest), Hi, Another noticeable part is that ufsread.c in boot2 uses very small block sizes to read the file system data. If that could be fixed boot times would drop too ! --HPS

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Atom Smasher
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Chris Rees wrote: what percentage of linux devs are on salary to develop linux? You're not comparing like with like. Linux is not an OS; FreeBSD is. Are you talking about Linux? Debian? Red Hat? linux is, in fact, an operating system. debian, red

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:30:20 -0600, Atom Smasher a...@smasher.org wrote: linux is, in fact, an operating system. debian, red hat, ubuntu, gentoo, etc are distributions of that OS. It's not really worth getting into this argument, but I'll reiterate that no, it's not an OS -- it's a kernel.

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Mark Saad
Here are My 2 Cents , 1. Support each release longer, or develop a better way to MFS ( Merge from Stable ) bug fixes, and driver updates to RELEASE. It always seams that there are a number of things in X-STABLE I would love to have in X.3-RELEASE and X.4-RELEASE, and I do not want all of X-STABLE

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:59:44 -0600, Julian Elischer jul...@freebsd.org wrote: On 1/17/12 9:36 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: having run -stable on production systems, the way to do it is: * follow -stable.. * pick a time that IN RETROSPECT (from 1 month later) looks as though it was good. *

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Chris Rees
On 17 January 2012 20:30, Atom Smasher a...@smasher.org wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Chris Rees wrote: what percentage of linux devs are on salary to develop linux? You're not comparing like with like. Linux is not an OS; FreeBSD is. Are you talking about Linux? Debian? Red Hat?

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Warner Losh
On Jan 17, 2012, at 11:12 AM, John Kozubik wrote: Again, I'm not suggesting more snapshots - I am suggesting more real, bona fide releases. This will help people. I tend to agree with you. Our release engineering process isn't serving the needs of users as much as it once did. When Walnut

RE: Build Option Survey results

2012-01-17 Thread Devin Teske
Thanks Bjoern! -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- hack...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Bjoern A. Zeeb Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 11:46 PM To: FreeBSD current mailing list Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Build Option Survey

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Ian Lepore
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 10:56 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: If it came to that maybe all the people who are currently saying they need better support of the 8.x branch could get together and together, support someone to do that job for them..would 1/5th of a person be too expensive for

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Mark Blackman
On 17 Jan 2012, at 21:09, Warner Losh wrote: On Jan 17, 2012, at 11:12 AM, John Kozubik wrote: Again, I'm not suggesting more snapshots - I am suggesting more real, bona fide releases. This will help people. I tend to agree with you. Our release engineering process isn't serving the

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Matt Olander
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Mark Blackman m...@exonetric.com wrote: On 17 Jan 2012, at 21:09, Warner Losh wrote: On Jan 17, 2012, at 11:12 AM, John Kozubik wrote: Again, I'm not suggesting more snapshots - I am suggesting more real, bona fide releases.  This will help people. I tend

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 02:50:08PM -0600 I heard the voice of Mark Felder, and lo! it spake thus: I've seen several other things hit -STABLE right after the freeze ended early January which surprise me that they weren't included in -RELEASE and we didn't have another RC. You mean the

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:02:29PM + I heard the voice of Tom Evans, and lo! it spake thus: You say that snapshots of STABLE are stable and effectively a running release branch, so why can't more releases be made? Is the release process too complex for minor revisions, could that be

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 06:57:19PM + I heard the voice of Hugo Silva, and lo! it spake thus: Come to think about it, those days are pretty much gone since 4.x (incidentally, many of us who've stuck with FreeBSD for this long think of 4.x as an epic series). Having been a FreeBSD user for

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 16 January 2012 18:21, Igor Mozolevsky i...@hybrid-lab.co.uk wrote: On 17 January 2012 01:02, richo ri...@psych0tik.net wrote: This would be a different argument if all the devs were paid a salary. Isn't this a bit of a cyclical argument: developers don't work because they are not paid a

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 16 January 2012 22:32, Atom Smasher a...@smasher.org wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, richo wrote: This would be a different argument if all the devs were paid a salary. == what percentage of linux devs are on salary to develop linux? That's the wrong question. The question is

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Mike Meyer
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:27:24 + Mark Blackman m...@exonetric.com wrote: I'd have thought PC-BSD and iXsystems are the natural people to to take over that role in any case. The FreeBSD foundation seems less interested in the for end-users angle as well. If that's the case, is there any

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. I'm replying to the OP because honestly, this thread has gotten a bit derailed. If you'd like to see: ... more frequent releases? then please step up and help with all the infrastructure needed to roll out test releases, including building _all_ the ports. A lot of people keep forgetting that

RE: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Devin Teske
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- hack...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Garrett Cooper Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 4:07 PM To: wbent...@futurecis.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Igor Mozolevsky
On 17 January 2012 23:01, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: If you'd like to see: ... more frequent releases? then please step up and help with all the infrastructure needed to roll out test releases, including building _all_ the ports. A lot of people keep forgetting that a release is

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 17/01/2012 23:46 Ian Lepore said the following: Now, before we're even really completely up and running on 8.2 at work, 9.0 hits the street, and developers have moved on to working in the 10.0 world. What are the chances that any of the patches I've submitted for bugs we fixed in 8.x are

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 18/01/2012 01:01 Adrian Chadd said the following: .. I'm replying to the OP because honestly, this thread has gotten a bit derailed. If you'd like to see: ... more frequent releases? then please step up and help with all the infrastructure needed to roll out test releases, including

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Dieter BSD
Atom writes: i bought myself a LENOVO T510 when it first came out, around early 2010. it's got an i5 CPU and Arrandale GPU. it's two years old and on freeBSD i STILL can't run xorg properly with it. I have a machine from 2005-08 that FreeBSD still doesn't support properly in 2012. After much

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Ian Lepore
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 01:17 +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 17/01/2012 23:46 Ian Lepore said the following: Now, before we're even really completely up and running on 8.2 at work, 9.0 hits the street, and developers have moved on to working in the 10.0 world. What are the chances that any of

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Atom Smasher
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Mark Felder wrote: linux is, in fact, an operating system. debian, red hat, ubuntu, gentoo, etc are distributions of that OS. It's not really worth getting into this argument, but I'll reiterate that no, it's not an OS -- it's a kernel. Without the userland utilities

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Doug Barton
First, let's do away with the whole, If you step up to help, your help will be accepted with open arms myth. That's only true if the project leadership agrees with your goals. We also need to take a step back and ask if throwing more person-hours at the problem is the right solution, or if

RE: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread John Kozubik
Hi Devin, On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Devin Teske wrote: I brought this up in last weekend's BAFUG meeting... We're _very_ interested in replicating the long-lifecycle of the 4-series with a newer series. But which one? Right now, we're jumping to the 8-series, but after seeing that one of the

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:25:12 -0600, Matthew D. Fuller fulle...@over-yonder.net wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 02:50:08PM -0600 I heard the voice of Mark Felder, and lo! it spake thus: I've seen several other things hit -STABLE right after the freeze ended early January which surprise me

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread John Kozubik
Hi Doug, Thanks a lot for these comments and insight - response below... On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Doug Barton wrote: I tried to make the point back in June that there was no reason to cut 9.0-RELEASE yet because we don't have solid support for clang in either the base, or ports (amongst several

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 18/01/2012 01:36 Ian Lepore said the following: On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 01:17 +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 17/01/2012 23:46 Ian Lepore said the following: Now, before we're even really completely up and running on 8.2 at work, 9.0 hits the street, and developers have moved on to working in

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: On 17 January 2012 23:01, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: If you'd like to see: ... more frequent releases? then please step up and help with all the infrastructure needed to roll out test releases, including building _all_ the ports. A lot

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Igor Mozolevsky
On 18 January 2012 00:00, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: Just a note: the next best thing you can to _not_ have a patch committed is to just open a PR and stop at that.  The best thing being not sharing the patch at all :-) [snip] Some things that help: - send a problem description

RE: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Devin Teske
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- hack...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Julian Elischer Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 10:56 AM To: Mark Felder Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus,

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: Hans Petter Selasky hsela...@c2i.net On Tuesday 17 January 2012 20:54:51 Steven Hartland wrote: boot time fixes (disable memtest), Hi, Another noticeable part is that ufsread.c in boot2 uses very small block sizes to read the file system data. If that

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Eitan Adler
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Igor Mozolevsky i...@hybrid-lab.co.uk wrote: Seriously, WTF is the point of having a PR system that allows patches to be submitted??! When I submit a patch I fix *your* code (not yours personally, but you get my gist). No other project requires a non-committer

RE: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Devin Teske
Hi John, -Original Message- From: John Kozubik [mailto:j...@kozubik.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 3:52 PM To: Devin Teske Cc: 'Garrett Cooper'; wbent...@futurecis.com; freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Igor Mozolevsky
On 18 January 2012 01:11, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: It takes time to review and test patches. There are a lot of people that think it only takes 30 seconds to download the patch, apply, and commit.  This is just not true. I fully understand that and it is not what I was saying,

tzsetup(8) patches

2012-01-17 Thread Devin Teske
Can someone please take a look at 3 patches I've filed against tzsetup(8)? bin/164039: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/164039 [PATCH] tzsetup(8): Don't write /var/db/zoneinfo either when -n is passed or when install_zoneinfo_file returns failure bin/164041:

14 month old regression (how?)

2012-01-17 Thread Devin Teske
Looking at bin/164192... I'm left wondering to myself... How on Earth did a regression-by-typo introduced in SVN r214735 go 14 months without being noticed? Effected branches include: RELENG_9_0_RELEASE RELENG_9_0 affected for 2 months and 1 week RELENG_9 RELENG_9_0_BP affected

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/17/12 12:11 PM, Mark Saad wrote: Here are My 2 Cents , 1. Support each release longer, or develop a better way to MFS ( Merge from Stable ) bug fixes, and driver updates to RELEASE. It always seams that there are a number of things in X-STABLE I would love to have in X.3-RELEASE and

Re: 14 month old regression (how?)

2012-01-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote: Looking at bin/164192... I'm left wondering to myself... How on Earth did a regression-by-typo introduced in SVN r214735 go 14 months without being noticed? Very carefully. I've seen it happen before on paid

RE: 14 month old regression (how?)

2012-01-17 Thread Devin Teske
-Original Message- From: Garrett Cooper [mailto:yaneg...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 6:29 PM To: Devin Teske Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 14 month old regression (how?) On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote:

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/17/12 3:36 PM, Ian Lepore wrote: On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 01:17 +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 17/01/2012 23:46 Ian Lepore said the following: Now, before we're even really completely up and running on 8.2 at work, 9.0 hits the street, and developers have moved on to working in the 10.0

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/17/12 2:41 PM, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 06:57:19PM + I heard the voice of Hugo Silva, and lo! it spake thus: Come to think about it, those days are pretty much gone since 4.x (incidentally, many of us who've stuck with FreeBSD for this long think of 4.x as an

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 01:41:53AM + I heard the voice of Igor Mozolevsky, and lo! it spake thus: The problem, however, lies in the time between a patch is submitted and is picked up, if the latter ever occurs!.. That is where the discouragement occurs. Quite. For instance, we're now

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/17/12 3:50 PM, Doug Barton wrote: First, let's do away with the whole, If you step up to help, your help will be accepted with open arms myth. That's only true if the project leadership agrees with your goals. leadership doesn't really control development here. action does. We also need

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 06:49:02PM -0800 I heard the voice of Julian Elischer, and lo! it spake thus: 5 was not out on a limb for so long because it was a clusterfun, it was out there because it was a rework of how almost everything in the kernel worked. I'm not saying it was a cluster

* Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Devin Teske
On Jan 17, 2012, at 7:05 PM, Matthew D. Fuller fulle...@over-yonder.net wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 06:49:02PM -0800 I heard the voice of Julian Elischer, and lo! it spake thus: 5 was not out on a limb for so long because it was a clusterfun, it was out there because it was a rework

Re: * Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/17/12 7:12 PM, Devin Teske wrote: On Jan 17, 2012, at 7:05 PM, Matthew D. Fullerfulle...@over-yonder.net wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 06:49:02PM -0800 I heard the voice of Julian Elischer, and lo! it spake thus: 5 was not out on a limb for so long because it was a clusterfun, it was

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Atom Smasher
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Mark Felder wrote: To be fair, it could be worse -- OpenBSD secretly wants you to run snapshots and CURRENT as the RELEASEs are mostly unmaintained outside of the most extreme security concerns. Even the packages are kept at the exact version of the time of release.

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread richo
On 18/01/12 10:07 +1300, Atom Smasher wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Mark Felder wrote: To be fair, it could be worse -- OpenBSD secretly wants you to run snapshots and CURRENT as the RELEASEs are mostly unmaintained outside of the most extreme security concerns. Even the packages are kept at the

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:07:56 -0600, Atom Smasher a...@smasher.org wrote: and how many corps are running openBSD? Works amazingly well as an edge router. You get pf, openbgpd, openspfd much higher performance that 50K cisco gear. The bugs we've hit have been fixed promptly as well.

Re: * Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 07:20:15PM -0800 I heard the voice of Julian Elischer, and lo! it spake thus: the trouble with 5 was that it had to be all-or-nothing. [...] the size of the giant pile of stuff was not of our choosing. As may be, it's beside my point. Whether due to malice,

Re: * Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Doug Barton
On 01/17/2012 19:20, Julian Elischer wrote: the trouble with 5 was that it had to be all-or-nothing. there is no such thing as a partly SMP system. (well, not one that you'd want to run). the size of the giant pile of stuff was not of our choosing. ... again, with all due respect to those

Re: * Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Roman Kurakin
Devin Teske wrote: [...] We could adopt a cycle similar to the Linux Kernel... Odd numbered releases are experimental while even numbered releases are stable I do not know the current state things in Linux kernel, but as far as I know 2.6 branch was not stable. It was branch with a lot of