Fixed means fixed in a production release [LWN.net]

Fixed means fixed in a production release

Posted Feb 9, 2012 14:29 UTC (Thu) by renox (subscriber, #23785)
In reply to: Fixed means fixed in a production release by k8to
Parent article: FreeBSD and release engineering

[Then I commit those changes and mark it fixed.
It may not ship for 2 months.]

Lucky you, I work in a field where there may be *years* between a fix and a new SW version containing release.
And users won't upgrade, so it makes debugging very frustrating: OK, I've spent one week of analysis to find out that the issue was corrected two years ago, please upgrade?

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