From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 1 18:12:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 470B337B409 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 18:12:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1902043FA3 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 18:12:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h322CiKu076022; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 18:12:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h322CiTH007936; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 18:12:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.9/8.12.8/Submit) id h322Cif9007935; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 18:12:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 18:12:44 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030402021244.GA7705@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20030401141454.N43325-100000@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <87znnaw7vq.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> <20030401224035.R474@trillian.santala.org> <20030401222116.GB5246@rot13.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030401222116.GB5246@rot13.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i cc: Jarkko Santala Subject: Re: 4.8-RELEASE vs SA-03:07 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 02:12:46 -0000 On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:21:16PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 10:54:44PM +0300, Jarkko Santala wrote: > > > IMHO _nothing_ should be called X.Y-RELEASE unless it is truly > > X.Y-RELEASE. This goes for any files on ftp and any cvs repositories. Once > > you tag something as X.Y-RELEASE or once you make any files public with > > that name on it, it becomes that release. > > A consequence of having an open source repository is that people have > access during every stage of the release engineering process. Are you > suggesting that all source access be locked out from the time the tag > is laid down until it's been tested and passes final QA? Needing to > adjust tags is a normal and expected part of making a FreeBSD > release..without it the releases would be much poorer quality. I think this does not automaticly follow. If you use the -RC label for identifying the release when it's in a state of final QA and not to identify the release when it's in -ALPHA or -BETA state, then you avoid using the -RELEASE label when it's still possible that tags slide. Of course the downside is that once you built and validated the -RC bits, and are ready to call it "The Release", you have to put down the actual -RELEASE label (on top of the -RC label) and rebuild the release from scratch so that the actual release will include the sources that have the -RELEASE tag. This generally causes a couple of days delay, but will assure that if you put down a -RELEASE tag, it will be the release. It's a naming issue, not a process issue. I don't think our naming is immediately obvious, which causes confusion at first and triggers threads like this... -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net