Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 17:48:20 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>, Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>, re-builders@FreeBSD.ORG, bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0-RC3 Message-ID: <20030110014820.GB17013@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20030110013649.GA48225@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200301090031.h090V5Ar017298@intruder.bmah.org> <3E1CC4F3.90206@btc.adaptec.com> <3E1DDF76.9010407@btc.adaptec.com> <20030110.095134.71175444.nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org> <3E1E1A7C.2020406@btc.adaptec.com> <20030110012549.GA17013@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030110013649.GA48225@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:36:49PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:25:49PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > Let's start the release and have Takahashi-san apply Soren's > > patch as an exception. That way it gets some testing and > > should increase confidence for a post-RC3 merge. > > Actually that is the opposite of what should happen -- we need to have > Soren's MFC exposed as widely as possible if it is to be in 5.0-R. The > way we can get wide[r] coverage is putting it in RC3. I don't know what the change is, but if it has possible impact on non-pc98, then yes. > > BTW: could we have a policy on the release branch (or HEAD if > > that's what we're releasing from) that commits are disallowed > > at least 2 hours before the release starts. That way all > > changes have been propagated without having to worry about > > getting that last commit. Exceptions allowed of course. > > CVSup from freefall/repoman. It's better to stop rushing things in... I like at least 5 hours so that I can run a buildworld first, prepare the box and optionally start a release early (which I will abort) to flush out commandline screwups and have enough time to fix last minute bogons... -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message
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