RE: [nsp] REG: Cisco IOS Software

From: Barry Bruins (bbruins@cisco.com)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 10:28:09 EST


At 03:31 PM 2/12/2001 +0300, Basil Dolmatov wrote:

>You slightly wrong...
>
>Most of the bugfixes are made in "T"-train, just a few of them are
>incorporated in
>mainline code. The reasoning is quite straightforward: "Bugfixes are very
>often the source
>of new bugs themselves".
>So, You have good chances, that bug you have been hit into with mainline
>code will never
>be fixed along mainline, only in "T"-train.

Well, not quite. When a bug is found in a T release, it's cause is
analyzed and it is "supposed to be" fixed at the source. Many bugs
are fixed in the mainline and then that fix is migrated to the appropriate
early deployment releases (such as the T train).

Barry

>-----------------------------------------------------
>Basil (Vasily) V. Dolmatov CCIE# 5347
>LightCom Corp. http://www.lightcom.ru
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vinod Anthony Joseph Cherunni [mailto:vac@dsqworld.com]
>Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 10:32 AM
>To: George Robbins
>Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net; fbruce@cisco.com; goemon@anime.net;
>grr@netaxs.com; nathan@arteck.com
>Subject: RE: [nsp] REG: Cisco IOS Software
>
>
>
>Hi All,
>
>Thanks a lot for all the advice. If I have got it right is that all bug
>fixing does not happen on (T) trains, & technology additions only happen on
>the (T) train, whereas all bug fixes happen on the major releases ie I mean
>non (T) trains.
>
>With warm regards,
>Vinod.



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