From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 8 11:30:06 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4871316A46C for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 11:30:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ubm@u-boot-man.de) Received: from mail.upper.net (mail.upper.net [62.75.224.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCEB913C458 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 11:30:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ubm@u-boot-man.de) Received: from ubm.mine.nu (p57AE1F07.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [87.174.31.7]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.upper.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l68BIRPb021699 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 13:18:28 +0200 Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 13:25:45 +0200 From: Marc "UBM" Bocklet To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20070708132545.5604cbe9.ubm@u-boot-man.de> In-Reply-To: <20070708111105.C9997@fledge.watson.org> References: <8cdf6c720707070710k2b7e030v37683e460d983bf9@mail.gmail.com> <20070708111105.C9997@fledge.watson.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.0 (GTK+ 2.10.12; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: status of 7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:30:06 -0000 On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 11:15:49 +0100 (BST) Robert Watson wrote: > > On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Paul Eskello wrote: > > > I was wondering when to expect 7.0 release ? Did I miss the > > schedule. Any showstoppers ? when to expect RC1 ? > > > > Just curious. > > > > Have a great weekend. > > Ken may respond in a more detailed form, but the current stage is > that we are waiting for the feature set to finally settle and some > known outstanding issues to resolve themselves, at which point we'll > cut a first beta in the next 2-4 weeks. As a precursor to that, > monthly snapshots will likely get built and released in the next > couple of days. Hopefully testing and feedback from that will allow > us to nail down a more specific schedule for the release itself. > > At this point, the imperative for developers is to wrap up any > remaining outstanding features and work on testing and bug fixing. > Likewise users :-). We often find that even early adoption sites only > really start testing during the RC cycle, and that's far too late to > make larger changes that may be required to address some sorts of > stability issues. Getting people doing testing the whole way through > the cycle makes a big difference in the effectiveness of the test > cycle. I'd like to do some testing, but I'm a little bit afraid of the upgrade procedure 6.2-stable to -current. Is it possible to do a simple upgrade if I follow the guidelines in UPGRADE or are there any hidden caveats? (like "you've to recompile all installed ports", etc. :-)) Bye Marc -- "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming