From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 24 18:35:00 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 593CF16A403 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:35:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bmah@freebsd.org) Received: from b.mail.sonic.net (b.mail.sonic.net [64.142.19.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 293BB13C455 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:35:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bmah@freebsd.org) Received: from chen-int.kitchenlab.org (hornet.kitchenlab.org [64.142.31.105]) (authenticated bits=0) by b.mail.sonic.net (8.13.8.Beta0-Sonic/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m1OIYwIu024815 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:34:58 -0800 Message-ID: <47C1B8CE.9060507@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:34:54 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Will Froning References: <511FC3E9-937C-475C-8F1B-39BA5347DBE0@gmail.com> <47C192C4.4080109@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: id=5ba052c3 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig526BC3BACB475ADBF7DB842B" Cc: Garrett Cooper , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gathering a list of showstoppers for RELENG_7 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, 24 Feb 2008 18:35:00 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig526BC3BACB475ADBF7DB842B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If memory serves me right, Will Froning wrote: > Hello All, >=20 > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Bruce A. Mah wrote:= >> If memory serves me right, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> >> > As part of the new Cisco FreeBSD ramp-up, I've noted that the= re'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 mach= ine, but >> > I should be able to assign bugs or CC owners, or help debug some mo= re >> > common items. I'll also try getting VMware fusion in the upcoming w= eek >> > to work from my laptop and help out in some way shape or form in pe= rson. >> >> 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 b= e >> 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.= >=20 > Does that mean is outd= ated? The libkse item was fixed in early February, but we didn't note it here. = I just updated it...thanks for pointing that out! > /me is sooooo looking forward to a killer release! /me too! There *are* some outstanding issues in 7.0, for which we're=20 contemplating some errata notices (and hence patches for RELENG_7_0).=20 I'm being deliberately vague here because I don't want to commit us to=20 anything yet, but two *possible* items are some if_re fixes and a change = in TCP options handling. For errata items, we need to wait for the=20 actual release to wrap up (duh) and also give the fixes some "soak time" = in HEAD and RELENG_7. Cheers, Bruce. --------------enig526BC3BACB475ADBF7DB842B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHwbjS2MoxcVugUsMRAn/5AJ9bRstJzLljJ0uRiWOXlyz0qIMVswCgtrOb g00HulEk+K4bDjZimZg/tOw= =ydzi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig526BC3BACB475ADBF7DB842B--