From owner-freebsd-qa Wed Jul 12 11:24:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE98637C259; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:24:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from foo.osd.bsdi.com (root@foo.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.137]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA43719; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:24:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by foo.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA39613; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:23:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200007121814.OAA64708@spoon.beta.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:23:16 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: "Brian J. McGovern" Subject: Re: 4.1 Release testing... Cc: asami@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 12-Jul-00 Brian J. McGovern wrote: > > > > > On 12-Jul-00 Brian J. McGovern wrote: > > > Sorry I've been so quiet. It appears that mail to me from freefall has > been > > > hanging up until this morning. At least now I'm caught up (just in time > to > > > change ISPs... ;) ) > > > > > > Anyhow, if everyone is serious about a code freeze on 7/20 for release > on > > > 7/25, how about this for a timetable.... > > > > > > ISO images to be cut on 7/14, 7/17, 7/20 (at 'code freeze'), and 7/22. > > > > So, we don't _have_ to have packages on the 14th and 17th, it would just > > be nice? Satoshi, do you have any recent package builds we could use to > > build a full CD #1 sitting on the build cluster? > > > > Given that most of the bugs occur in the OS, and the package related bugs > tend to be a dependency missing, I think it would be wise get our hands on > the OS ASAP. Given that the test cycle is so short, I'd rather the bandwidth > early on go to downloading a small ISO image and test, rather than > downloading > a larger ISO image w/packages (which are usually at least the size of the OS, > if not larger), and getting less test time. > > Given that most of the 'bugs' with packages usually revolve around > dependencies missing, or problems with the unpackaging, I think we can put > them > off a few days, and get a number of OS bugs shaken out first. > -Brian It should not be a problem to have an ISO by the 14th then. If Jordan doesn't want to do it, then I'll roll a releng_4 release snapshot here at work and then get him to stick the FTP bits and the ISO in the appropriate places. :) -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message