Re:FreeBSD 11.1 released
by emaste on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @12:49PM
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> The most frustrating thing for me are the many Bugzilla entries for issues that I'm having, with patches, that are sitting there for years. For example this one https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25986 which was open for 14 years before it became CVE-2015-5358
That one is a particularly disappointing and egregious example, but highlights the problem we have with stale PRs and patches. There are a number of folks in the FreeBSD community working on triaging old (and new) PRs, but it's slow going and a mostly thankless task.
If you have other cases of issues that have existing PRs and/or patches please feel free to let me know (email in profile) and I'll try to find out why it's stalled and if someone can help out.
That one is a particularly disappointing and egregious example, but highlights the problem we have with stale PRs and patches. There are a number of folks in the FreeBSD community working on triaging old (and new) PRs, but it's slow going and a mostly thankless task.
If you have other cases of issues that have existing PRs and/or patches please feel free to let me know (email in profile) and I'll try to find out why it's stalled and if someone can help out.