Re: Unix Review review of Alpha/OSF

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From: zrepachol
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:39

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In article <1993Jan22.091555.19314@rdg.dec.com>, jpt@salama.fno.dec.com (Jari Tavi) writes:
> Umh ;-) Yes, I fully agree that we need net-dist for patches. Don't shoot us
> yet ;-) 
> Still we have to solve the problems with lawyers and regulations, but that
> shouldn't be a problem ... that's what the lawyers exists anyway...
> 
> We need only good, documented and accepted way of distributing patches. This
> shoudl take care of at least following things:
>  - patch history
>  - version compatibilities and incompatibilies
>  - "easy to use interface" to minimize risk for human errors
>  - other things I haven't even thought yet...
> 

You might start by dragging out the old 10/20 software dispatch! Not only were
fixes published, but also fixes to fixes :-) AND SPRs with no fix. Them you
knew where to not put your feet! Not quite as good as removing the mine field,
but at least you knew to be carefull. It also allerted people to look out for
the bug, and generate more info on it to the developers.

~Paul

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