From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 1 01:38:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA28803 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 01:38:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA28792 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 01:38:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id BAA24698; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 01:38:12 -0700 (PDT) To: "Studded" cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Final notice: 2.2 branch code freeze is coming up. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Oct 1997 01:17:29 PDT." <199710010817.BAA14397@mail.san.rr.com> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 01:38:11 -0700 Message-ID: <24694.875695091@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I like this idea, with the caveat that perhaps the one on > ftp.freebsd.org would be one or two days old so that people d/l'ing > them have a reasonable chance of avoiding *new* bugs as opposed to the > very valid situation that Jordan mentioned of not stumbling over old > ones that are already fixed. You should probably also have a pointer I think I can manage about 4 complete releases there, so that should give people a more than reasonable range. Remember also that these are supposed to be coming from a *frozen* branch: If there are any new bugs added at any point during this test cycle, many people will be annoyed. :-) > in a text file telling people how to get the very latest from the > 22releng machine. And the 2.2.5-date-BETA idea that Joseph came up > with is a very good one as well. :) Done. > And speaking of bugs.... I get the impression that the (now) > 2.2.5-beta code is pretty stable at this point? I ask beause I've got I sure hope so! ;-) Jordan