Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:22:27 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org, developers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.3 RELEASE schedule Message-ID: <20010221202227.C9657@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <41733.982737912@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:45:12PM -0800 References: <41733.982737912@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:45:12PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > Hi guys, > > People have been asking, so it's not too early to release a "rough > schedule" (subject to slippage if clearly required) for 4.3 and get > some feedback on it. > > March 05: Beginning of -stable branch code freeze > March 10: FreeBSD 4.3-BETA > March 20: FreeBSD 4.3-RC (RELEASE CANDIDATE) > March 25: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE > > These dates are somewhat arbitrary but also based on long experience: > More than two candidate releases during a release cycle tends to be > unproductive and confusing when it takes many people up to a week to > even get around to testing one, for example. Having a code freeze > last longer than 3 weeks or so also tends to be an exercise in > diminishing returns since most of the changes come either at the very > beginning or the very end of the cycle, so the dates have been set > accordingly. > > I will also categorically state, however, that when I release the RC > this time it will be a definite *RELEASE CANDIDATE*. This means that > nothing but the most critical last-minute release bogons will be fixed > between RC and -release and people who don't test the -RC as a full > release will likely be very little help in making the final release > everything it should be. I will, of course, be making a full ISO > image (with packages) and FTP release bits available for 4.3-RC to Would it be a lot of work to also put plain (no packages etc) .ISOs up for ftp? Those of us on slower links can more easily pull 150Mb (or so) than 600+ Mb for a full CD. Me having to test multiple Alpha models would sure appreciate if this could be done. W/ -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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