From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 29 18:30:12 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68C5416A41F for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 18:30:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: from frontmail.ipactive.de (frontmail.maindns.de [85.214.95.103]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 264C413C448 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 18:30:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: from mail.vtec.ipme.de (Q7cac.q.ppp-pool.de [89.53.124.172]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by frontmail.ipactive.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43D5412883F; Tue, 29 May 2007 20:30:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cesar.sz.vwsoft.com (cesar.sz.vwsoft.com [192.168.16.3]) by mail.vtec.ipme.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3819B3F9EC; Tue, 29 May 2007 20:29:12 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <465C70FD.90909@vwsoft.com> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 20:29:17 +0200 From: Volker User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070528) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Bruce A. Mah" References: <465BF62B.6090904@vwsoft.com> <20070529102929.GA49322@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <465C06CE.6000703@delphij.net> <465C4624.5020004@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <465C4624.5020004@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-VWSoft-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: volker@vwsoft.com X-ipactive-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ipactive-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ipactive-MailScanner-From: volker@vwsoft.com Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: release cycle X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 18:30:12 -0000 On 05/29/07 17:26, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > And that's just the src/ part. The original poster was mostly concerned > about the X.org upgrade, which as we all know lives in the ports/ tree. > If we were to do a "point release" we'd basically require a complete > port freeze and package build run. I believe that we did do that for > both 4.6.2-RELEASE and 5.2.1-RELEASE. As someone's pointed out, the > ports committers are still fixing up some of the rough edges around the > X.org update, so that part of the tree isn't even ready to go yet. > > The way I see it (and this is just my personal opinion, not an official > statement from re@), doing a point release now would be a distraction > from our next scheduled release, which is 7.0. Bruce, is there any ETA for 7-STABLE? Thx Volker