Re: CVS commit: src/sys/compat

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <19b5c128-7725-0638-67f8-749532353453%m00nbsd.net@localhost>,
Maxime Villard  <max%m00nbsd.net@localhost> wrote:
>
>So is making the system vulnerable by default with marginal features. The
>system is broken now. All you had to do is one sysctl; but that takes too much
>time, and you're probably too busy handling serious business like debating
>about your favorite hitler quotes.

The problem is that nothing is black and white:
1. You probably don't use the feature most of the time, others might.
   [this determines how marginal the feature is]
2. How critical are the bugs, how easy it is to find them all? For
   example, are there similar bugs in other places in the system;
   do we disable those parts? [security vs usability]

Here you unilateraly made a decision to disable a feature that was
previously enabled. Regardless if the decision was correct or
incorrect, you made a determination based on your assessment and
affected not only yourself, but everyone else using the system.
Such decisions should be made by consensus not by force. It is a
different story if there was a critical bug that could not be fixed,
so the feature had to be disabled for safety. Here we are talking
about a feature that was enabled for a long time, and was disabled
without enough prior discussion.

I understand we perhaps are not moving fast enough or making
decisions fast enough, but process needs to be followed otherwise
everyone is unhappy with the results.

christos