Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:29:40 +0400 From: "Will Froning" <will.froning@gmail.com> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Cc: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gathering a list of showstoppers for RELENG_7 Message-ID: <dea50a6c0802240829i44325f4bx9356e3a411dc8b67@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47C192C4.4080109@freebsd.org> References: <511FC3E9-937C-475C-8F1B-39BA5347DBE0@gmail.com> <47C192C4.4080109@freebsd.org>
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Hello All, On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Bruce A. Mah <bmah@freebsd.org> wrote: > If memory serves me right, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > > As part of the new Cisco FreeBSD ramp-up, I've noted that there's > > been some concern about showstoppers for RELENG_7 as of late. So, I > > was just wondering what the current showstoppers are for 7.x and > > possibly how I can help triage issues in the next couple weeks, etc, > > to accelerate the release a bit. > > I may not have access to a PC at all times nor a FreeBSD machine, but > > I should be able to assign bugs or CC owners, or help debug some more > > common items. I'll also try getting VMware fusion in the upcoming week > > to work from my laptop and help out in some way shape or form in person. > > The release builds for 7.0 are underway now. > > What oftentimes happens very late in the release cycle (and this was > true for 7.0) is that we find some issues that crop up that need to be > fixed. They're usually assigned pretty quickly to "owners" (in fact the > owners are oftentimes the ones that report these problems), so many > times there isn't a lot for other people to do, and these issues don't > even make it into the PR database. > > I admit that we could (and should) do better in communicating status to > other developers and the community at large. This is mostly helpful in > the early and middle stages of the release cycle. > > This is clearly *not* to say that FreeBSD doesn't need help with > testing, bug management, and so forth, in fact quite the opposite is > true. I mean only to say that 7.0 doesn't have anything blocking it. Does that mean <http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/todo.html>; is outdated? /me is sooooo looking forward to a killer release! Thanks, Will > > Thanks! > > Bruce. > > -- Will Froning Unix SysAdmin Will.Froning@GMail.com MSN: wfroning@angui.sh YIM: will_froning AIM: willfroning
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