Re: gvinum remains broken in 5.3-RELEASE?

From: Scott Long <scottl_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 18:03:19 -0700
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Saturday,  6 November 2004 at 18:39:13 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 06:03:20PM +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote..
>>
>>>Hello Wilko,
>>>
>>>Am Samstag, 6. November 2004 16:21 schrieb Wilko Bulte:
>>>
>>>>On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:26:16AM +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette
>>>>wrote..
>>>>
>>>>>I cannot imagine to deliver/sell CDs with 5.3-RELEASE on it with a
>>>>>broken gvinum RAID5 where the fix is available for (roughly) 2
>>>>>weeks now.
>>>>
>>>>You obviously have NO idea what it means to build releases for
>>>>all the architectures etc etc.
>>>
>>>My apologies if I made you upset...
>>
>>Oh, not upset.  Problem is that there are most likely lots of other
>>bugs still in 5.3-R.
>>
>>Thing is, at some point we just need to call it a day and put the
>>generated bits on the ftp-servers.  Otherwise there would never
>>be a RELEASE..
> 
> 
> I can appreciate that the leadup to 5.3-RELEASE has been painful, but
> what's the purpose of a release which doesn't work?  For a large
> number of Vinum users, 5.3 will be a release to avoid.
> 
> Greg
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Lukas and I discussed this extensively, and the decision was agreed
upon.

Scott
Received on Sun Nov 07 2004 - 00:02:28 UTC

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