From owner-freebsd-ia64 Thu Jan 9 20:22: 9 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 8633C37B401; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 20:22:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic.adaptec.com [208.236.45.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C86A543F18; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 20:22:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott_long@btc.adaptec.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h0A4Laj14484; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 20:21:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from btc.btc.adaptec.com (btc.btc.adaptec.com [10.100.0.52]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA10156; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 20:21:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from btc.adaptec.com (hollin [10.100.253.56]) by btc.btc.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA13935; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 21:21:24 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <3E1E4A1C.9080505@btc.adaptec.com> Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 21:20:44 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021125 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: "David O'Brien" , Takahashi Yoshihiro , re-builders@freebsd.org, bmah@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.0-RC3 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> <20030110014820.GB17013@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <200301090031.h090V5Ar017298@intruder.bmah.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > 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... > Formalizing a wait period is probably a very good idea. For now, lets say that Soeren's ata MFC will signal the closing of that branch, and you can start a build any time after that once you are ready. I'll send an email with the signal. We've had some very good bug fixes through the RC period, so slipping a little more to get it right doesn't bother me too much =-) Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message