Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:43:32 +0100 From: Hugo Silva <hugo@barafranca.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: status of 7.0 Message-ID: <46912244.4060009@barafranca.com> In-Reply-To: <20070708132545.5604cbe9.ubm@u-boot-man.de> References: <8cdf6c720707070710k2b7e030v37683e460d983bf9@mail.gmail.com> <20070708111105.C9997@fledge.watson.org> <20070708132545.5604cbe9.ubm@u-boot-man.de>
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Marc UBM Bocklet wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 11:15:49 +0100 (BST) > Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> wrote: > > >> On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Paul Eskello wrote: >> >> >>> I was wondering when to expect 7.0 release ? Did I miss the >>> schedule. Any showstoppers ? when to expect RC1 ? >>> >>> Just curious. >>> >>> Have a great weekend. >>> >> Ken may respond in a more detailed form, but the current stage is >> that we are waiting for the feature set to finally settle and some >> known outstanding issues to resolve themselves, at which point we'll >> cut a first beta in the next 2-4 weeks. As a precursor to that, >> monthly snapshots will likely get built and released in the next >> couple of days. Hopefully testing and feedback from that will allow >> us to nail down a more specific schedule for the release itself. >> >> At this point, the imperative for developers is to wrap up any >> remaining outstanding features and work on testing and bug fixing. >> Likewise users :-). We often find that even early adoption sites only >> really start testing during the RC cycle, and that's far too late to >> make larger changes that may be required to address some sorts of >> stability issues. Getting people doing testing the whole way through >> the cycle makes a big difference in the effectiveness of the test >> cycle. >> > > > I'd like to do some testing, but I'm a little bit afraid of the upgrade > procedure 6.2-stable to -current. Is it possible to do a simple upgrade > if I follow the guidelines in UPGRADE or are there any hidden caveats? > (like "you've to recompile all installed ports", etc. :-)) > > Bye > Marc > > I'm running -CURRENT now and will happily upgrade once there's a beta/rc out. Hugo
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