Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:22:29 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle Message-ID: <201201261322.29688.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <6D5F6ECE-5966-4849-AFDC-7F385E2CE906@exonetric.com> References: <CADWvR2ioJo2oy=0FTRv-BiMHGG3KB1AERjuu0FOk_yCqsGzukg@mail.gmail.com> <201201260937.47448.jhb@freebsd.org> <6D5F6ECE-5966-4849-AFDC-7F385E2CE906@exonetric.com>
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On Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:49:22 am Mark Blackman wrote: > > On 26 Jan 2012, at 14:37, John Baldwin wrote: > > > On Thursday, January 19, 2012 4:33:40 pm Adrian Chadd wrote: > >> On 19 January 2012 09:47, Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> What could I do to help make 7.5-RELEASE a reality ? > >>> > >> > >> Put your hand up and volunteer to run the 7.5-RELEASE release cycle. > > > > That's not actually true or really fair. There has to be some buy-in from the > > project to do an official release; it is not something that a single person > > can do off in a corner and then have the Project bless the bits as an official > > release. > > And raises the interesting question for an outsider of > > a) who is "the project" in this case > and > b) what does it take for a release to be a release? I'll answer the two together. The project is the entity that "owns" freebsd.org and a release is not a release unless it is present on ftp.freebsd.org and has a signed announcement e-mail with hashes, etc. on the freebsd-announce@ mailing list. Without those things there is no reason for a user to believe that a particular set of bits is a legitimate FreeBSD release. Additionally, a release should be available via the appropriate tags in the CVS and SVN repositories available from freebsd.org machines. -- John Baldwin
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