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Date:      Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:56:59 -0800
From:      bmah@acm.org (Bruce A. Mah)
To:        Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com>
Cc:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@acm.org>, Murray Stokely <murray@freebsd.org>, freebsd-qa@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 4.5-RC3 / x86 Now Available. 
Message-ID:  <200201241756.g0OHuxd32435@bmah.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020124174921.GF2881@freebsdmall.com> 
References:  <20020124100636.GF1674@freebsdmall.com> <200201241606.g0OG6gs08765@bmah.dyndns.org> <20020124174921.GF2881@freebsdmall.com>

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If memory serves me right, Murray Stokely wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 08:06:42AM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> > Hmmm.  Is there a new target date for creating RELENG_4_5?  I carved
> > some time out of today for doing version number bumps and updating the
> > release documentation, but it looks like the release isn't at that stage
> > yet.  :-p
> 
>   I think that we should push the release back 1 day for a couple of
> reasons :
> 
> 	1. There are 2 trivial security fixes in the pipeline that I
>   	   would like to include in 4.5.

Security fixes are always good.  :-)

> 	2. We didn't provide a perfect package set with any of the
>            RCs.  I would like to get it right for RC4 to make sure
>            there is nothing else we are missing.
> 
> 	3. Saturday vs Sunday should make little or no difference for
> 	   vendors wishing to replicate CDs/DVDs for BSDCon.
> 
> 	4. There were more changes in the past week than I would
>            normally have liked to see.  I believe that the changes we
>            did approve are necessary, but I want to give users more of
>            the weekend to test these recent changes.

All true.

>   I think we should create the RELENG_4_5_0 branch on Friday, then tag
> late on Saturday.

Sounds like a plan!

Bruce.



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