From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 22 13:46:03 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E23F7106566B for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:46:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from AHamiltonWright@MtA.ca) Received: from mailserv.mta.ca (mailserv.mta.ca [138.73.1.1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B403C8FC13 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:46:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from AHamiltonWright@MtA.ca) Received: from [138.73.29.51] (helo=qemg.org) by mailserv.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1LbDyE-0005j6-R2 for doc@freebsd.org; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:02:11 -0400 Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:03:48 -0400 (AST) From: Andrew Hamilton-Wright Sender: andrew@qemg.org To: doc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Subject: Descripton of MFC in release process? X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:46:04 -0000 Dear Doc'ers; I was just trying to clarify my understanding of the FreeBSD release process, and in particular exactly when and under what conditions MFC requests occur. If one searches for MFC on the main website, one finds such links as: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/approvals.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pr-guidelines/pr-lifecycle.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pr-guidelines/pr-states.html This looks well and good until one actually examines the pages: the second two do not contains the text "MFC" in the body at all, and the first one has only a link named "MFC" referring to the miscellaneous questions page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#DEFINE-MFC that in turn does not actually define MFC (any more, although I think that once upon a time it may have). So two questions: - do we have a nice definition of the MFC process (possibly in a larger release process doc of which I am unaware)? - where should we put a link to this so that it can be found more easily? Thanks, Andrew.