Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 11:18:26 +0200 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, developers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4 will be delayed until Saturday, the 8th of September Message-ID: <20010906111826.B317@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es> In-Reply-To: <20010906091807.A66592@clan.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:18:08AM %2B0100 References: <20010905130322N.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010906091807.A66592@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:18:08AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:03:22PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > Because RC3 was a fairly significant regression and thus didn't > > represent a very good test target, what we'll be releasing today > > instead is 4.4-RC4, a release candidate more in-line with the > > definition of that term. We'll take 3 days to collect feedback and > > then roll the final release. > > Three days testing for a release candidate? > > Isn't that a bit, well, short? > Especially when we are still waiting to 4.4-RC4 appearing in ftp-master, and then we'll have to spend several hours in transferring it to the mirrors. In practice, this leaves us with 24 hours for testing the [presumably] last RC. In addition, the 8th is Saturday, i.e, weekend. I think that 4.4-RELEASE should be delayed until the 11th or 12th. JMA -- ****** Jose M. Alcaide // jose@we.lc.ehu.es // jmas@FreeBSD.org ****** ** "Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers" -- Leonard Brandwein ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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