From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 20 22:45:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (winston.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B31CC37B4EC; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 22:45:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1L6jDH41737; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 22:45:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com) To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: developers@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 4.3 RELEASE schedule Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 22:45:12 -0800 Message-ID: <41733.982737912@winston.osd.bsdi.com> From: Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi guys, People have been asking, so it's not too early to release a "rough schedule" (subject to slippage if clearly required) for 4.3 and get some feedback on it. March 05: Beginning of -stable branch code freeze March 10: FreeBSD 4.3-BETA March 20: FreeBSD 4.3-RC (RELEASE CANDIDATE) March 25: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE These dates are somewhat arbitrary but also based on long experience: More than two candidate releases during a release cycle tends to be unproductive and confusing when it takes many people up to a week to even get around to testing one, for example. Having a code freeze last longer than 3 weeks or so also tends to be an exercise in diminishing returns since most of the changes come either at the very beginning or the very end of the cycle, so the dates have been set accordingly. I will also categorically state, however, that when I release the RC this time it will be a definite *RELEASE CANDIDATE*. This means that nothing but the most critical last-minute release bogons will be fixed between RC and -release and people who don't test the -RC as a full release will likely be very little help in making the final release everything it should be. I will, of course, be making a full ISO image (with packages) and FTP release bits available for 4.3-RC to facilitate the most thorough testing possible. With any luck, we'll have the final release fully polished up and ready to go 5 days later. By request of the security team, the 4.3-RELEASE tag will also be a branch tag this time. This is NOT to say that it will become a "supported branch" in the same sense that 4.3-STABLE will be, I've already expressed my firm opinions on the kind of developer support nightmare that would be. This tag is strictly for "internal use" by the security group and possibly by myself in doing point releases. This is not a tag that other developers should be referencing, this is JFYI. Thanks! - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message