First off, thanks to everybody involved in releasing a new portable openntpd (and of course developing native openbsd ntpd), it is much appreciated.
One of the changes I had made to the old portable openntpd in the gentoo linux specific patchset was to change the log level for when ntpd fails to set the time initially when given the -s option from debug to warn. ntpd was asked to set the time before continuing, it failed to do so, and the system is now booting potentially with inaccurate time; this seems like something that should be logged as at least a warning. I asked Brent about it, he said he left it as debug due to some historical openbsd discussion he had found which expressed that preference. I couldn't find that discussion in either the commit logs or the mailing list archives. I don't want to rehash a made decision, but could somebody please either provide me a pointer to that previous discussion that I could review or otherwise explain the objection to making this event a warning? Thanks much.
