Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:51:45 +0100 From: "Jack Raats" <jack@jarasoft.net> To: "Robert Watson" <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: kama <kama@pvp.se>, Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting... Message-ID: <997A6168643B453CB90D2A25AD7AE563@jarasoft.net> References: <1237299551.80881.16.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu><20090318102134.D55869@ns1.as.pvp.se> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903181134380.99720@fledge.watson.org> <91210A8474CD444786833AFD3542BCCA@jarasoft.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903190927320.99520@fledge.watson.org>
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From: "Robert Watson" <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> >> About FreeBSD 6.4. If you consider to make new 6.4 iso's, perhaps it >> would be better to think about an 6.5 release???? > > It's a question of bandwidth for the release engineering team, ports team, > security officer team, etc -- I think a 6.5 is pretty much out of the > question right now with 8.0 preparing to ramp up and 7.2 now in flight. > That gives us a short menu of options: > > - Errata patches > - Errata patches + ISO reroll > - Point release > > Because of the boot loader issues, errata patches don't really cut it > alone, as if you can't install, you definitely can't apply errata patches > :-). This suggests a reroll or a point release. This reminds me of FreeBSD 4.6 and FreeBSD 4.6.2 (The first FreeBSD I ever used was 4.6, that's why I remember) > For me the distinction remains fuzzy, but I think a key to either approach > would be avoiding having to fully re-QA, do BETAs, build new packages, > etc. This suggests taking RELENG_6_4 on some date, perhaps rebranching if > it's a point release, or not if it's an ISO reroll, and bundling it with > exactly the same packages we shipped in 6.4 (etc) and bumping a few > documentation parts. Indeed, that's a lot of work for an errata patch. Jack
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