From owner-freebsd-qa Fri Jan 18 20:24:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D9F937B404; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 20:24:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0J4O3M97256; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 06:24:03 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from jhay) From: John Hay Message-Id: <200201190424.g0J4O3M97256@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: RELENG_4_5 Branch : January 21 ? In-Reply-To: <20020119015249.GD18200@freebsdmall.com> from Murray Stokely at "Jan 18, 2002 05:52:49 pm" To: murray@FreeBSD.ORG (Murray Stokely) Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 06:24:02 +0200 (SAT) Cc: qa@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why not do it in the RELENG_4 tree? Maybe start with it even before RC1 (in the future). There is nothing that says the documentation shipped with the RCs shouldn't already claim 4.5 or is there? I think you will get more eyes on it in the RELENG_4 branch. > I think that it would be beneficial to create the release branch a > few days earlier than normal, and release the third release candidate > directly from the RELENG_4_5 branch. This would allow us to do a > number of things, such as : > > 1. Update all of the release notes / documentation for the final > release, so that this can be reviewed by our users in RC3 to make > sure nothing is left out. > > 2. Unfreeze RELENG_4, so that regular development can continue. > > The 'RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE' tag remains, as always, the label for the > final release on the release branch. > > Thoughts? > > - Murray John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message