From owner-freebsd-ia64 Thu Jan 9 17:48:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48E1A37B401; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 17:48:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.BAYAREA.NET [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ED3343F13; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 17:48:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (athlon.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.3]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0A1mL2G019116; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 17:48:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0A1mK9b017087; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 17:48:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0A1mKVG017086; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 17:48:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 17:48:20 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Scott Long , Takahashi Yoshihiro , re-builders@FreeBSD.ORG, bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0-RC3 Message-ID: <20030110014820.GB17013@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030110013649.GA48225@dragon.nuxi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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