From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 21 11:37: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51F0937B491; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:36:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 14Vf44-0001nA-00; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:36:40 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f1LJMRf09772; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:22:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:22:27 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org, developers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.3 RELEASE schedule Message-ID: <20010221202227.C9657@freebie.demon.nl> References: <41733.982737912@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i 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 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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