Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 00:26:21 -0800 From: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com> To: Gunnar Flygt <gunnar.flygt@sr.se> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.8-RELEASE vs SA-03:07 Message-ID: <20030402082621.7A80A9E@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Message from Gunnar Flygt <gunnar.flygt@sr.se> of "Wed, 02 Apr 2003 09:09:52 %2B0200." <20030402070952.GD37762@sr.se>
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> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 06:21:10PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 06:12:44PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > And what about the last-minute (but easily fixed) bug that is > > discovered after the -RELEASE tag goes down, whenever that happens in > > the process? Either you slide the tag to fix the bug or you don't. > > That's what the original poster was talking about. > > > > Kris > > Isn't this much fuzz for nothing, really? All there is to it is > wait for the "Release Officer" to announce that 4.8 i RELEASED. > > Then it is Released. Yes. I don't really understand why the Release Engineering is done the way it is. When I was releasing commercial software, I'd simply lock and tag the tree with a unique, temporary, label, check out a clean tree against that label, unlock the tree and build and package the software. If the build subsequently passed QA, I laid down another label based on the one used to check out the passing build. All the temporary build tags would get removed automatically anyway when they were more than a few days old. You just had to lay down additional tags for "milestones" that you wanted to permanently get back to (e.g. pre-releases, various betas, code forks etc.) If you're only building releases from source trees checked out against labels, there's little need to keep the tree frozen for weeks at a time, it seems to me. Cheers, AS
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