From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 6 2:19:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6912137B401; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 02:19:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es (v-ger [158.227.6.51]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f869JcL27850; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 11:19:38 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from jose@localhost) by v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f869IQp01368; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 11:18:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jose) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 11:18:26 +0200 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" To: Nik Clayton Cc: Jordan Hubbard , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, developers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4 will be delayed until Saturday, the 8th of September Message-ID: <20010906111826.B317@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es> References: <20010905130322N.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010906091807.A66592@clan.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010906091807.A66592@clan.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:18:08AM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-RC Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:18:08AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:03:22PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > Because RC3 was a fairly significant regression and thus didn't > > represent a very good test target, what we'll be releasing today > > instead is 4.4-RC4, a release candidate more in-line with the > > definition of that term. We'll take 3 days to collect feedback and > > then roll the final release. > > Three days testing for a release candidate? > > Isn't that a bit, well, short? > Especially when we are still waiting to 4.4-RC4 appearing in ftp-master, and then we'll have to spend several hours in transferring it to the mirrors. In practice, this leaves us with 24 hours for testing the [presumably] last RC. In addition, the 8th is Saturday, i.e, weekend. I think that 4.4-RELEASE should be delayed until the 11th or 12th. JMA -- ****** Jose M. Alcaide // jose@we.lc.ehu.es // jmas@FreeBSD.org ****** ** "Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers" -- Leonard Brandwein ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message