From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 17 00:55:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEF5216A4B3 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:55:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from h2.liquidneon.com (h2.liquidneon.com [38.116.133.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EFCC43FBF for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:55:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bdavis@house.so14k.com) Received: (qmail 66895 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2003 07:55:20 -0000 Received: from 12-235-234-120.client.attbi.com (HELO mccaffrey.house.so14k.com) (@12.235.234.120) by h2.liquidneon.com with SMTP; 17 Sep 2003 07:55:20 -0000 Received: by mccaffrey.house.so14k.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DD869303; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 01:55:19 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 01:55:19 -0600 From: Brad Davis To: Scott Long , stable@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030917075519.GA43577@mccaffrey.house.so14k.com> References: <3F673919.10802@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F673919.10802@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: [Fwd: Release Engineering Status Report] X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 07:55:25 -0000 With the delay of 4.9 should the Ports freeze be lifted? Brad On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 10:23:53AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > This should have gone to stable@ also.... > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Release Engineering Status Report > Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 23:48:54 -0600 > From: Scott Long > To: current@FreeBSD.org > > All, > > I'd like to give a status report for 4.x and 5.x for the developers and > users who didn't attend the DevSummit this past weekend. > > 4.9: > The 4.9 release is likely going to be pushed back for a few weeks while > the recent instability reports are tracked down. The target goal is two > weeks, but hopefully things can be resolved before then. The problems > appear to stem from the recent PAE import. The consensus reached at the > DevSummit is that PAE is a critical feature for 4.x and that removing it > isn't desirable unless the problems persist. We encourage anyone to > help with this. > > 5.x: > The 5-stable roadmap document received a major overhaul yesterday. I > encourage everyone to take a look at it at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/5-roadmap/index.html. > Among the highlights, KSE is progressing extremely well and is no longer > a major source of concern for 5-stable. Stability is also at a very > good level. However, while performance has improved in some areas, it > is not at the level that we want it to be. Since improving performance > will likely involve changing some API's and adding short-term risk to > stability, it's looking like the 5-stable branch will be delayed until > 5.3. 5.2 will be released in late Nov/early Dec and will feature the > vastly improved KSE, partially-improved network performance, optional > dynamically-linked root filesystem, and many stability fixes, along with > numerous new features. > > I thank all of the developers, contributors, and users for the highly > productive summer and ask that that enthusiasm continue as we push > towards 5.2 and 5.3. > > Scott > The Release Engineering Team > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"