Re: CVS commit: src/sys/kern

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Jared D. McNeill wrote:

> On 4-Apr-07, at 8:03 AM, Elad Efrat wrote:
> > this isn't what I pointed out. I told you this change is wrong, and I
> > also asked who okay'd it. revert these two commits.
> >
> > PLEASE STOP COMMITTING SHIT TO THE TREE WITHOUT GETTING IT OKAY'D FIRST.
>
> ``NetBSD-current is a daily snapshot of the NetBSD development source tree. 
> Because it is ``work in progress,'' it may not be particularly well tested, 
> and it may not even compile. People developing drivers and other system-level 
> software for NetBSD are encouraged to run NetBSD-current, as are people who 
> want to be on the bleeding edge of NetBSD development. If you're just using 
> NetBSD for day-to-day work, you should probably be running a formal release 
> of NetBSD instead.''

It's a nice disclaimer, but I hope the developers are using this as a
"worst case" and are actually trying to improve things and not devolve
everything into an unworking pile of trash.

I kind of read this as, "Don't expect your checkout to work, we may be
in the middle of a commit. We're also human and may have forgotten to do
a full build, so when one of the neurotic rebuilders hit a snag, we'll
try to fix the broken build ASAP." Core may have decided otherwise,
since that's all secret^Wopaque.

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