From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 21 2:26:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (pns.wobline.de [212.68.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0474C37B417; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 02:26:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from colt.ncptiddische.net (ppp-219.wobline.de [212.68.69.230]) by mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/tw-20010821) with ESMTP id fBLAQW721714; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 11:26:33 +0100 Received: from tisys.org (howie.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.3]) by colt.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBLASKX38432; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 11:28:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Received: (from nils@localhost) by tisys.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBLASKC02575; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 11:28:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 11:27:45 +0100 From: Nils Holland To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: Nuno Teixeira , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.5-PRERELEASE announcement ? Message-ID: <20011221112745.A2275@tisys.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Bruce A. Mah" , Nuno Teixeira , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011220231545.GF29443@gw.tex.bogus> <200112202328.fBKNSmp01975@bmah.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200112202328.fBKNSmp01975@bmah.dyndns.org>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 03:28:47PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD howie.ncptiddische.net 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-Machine-Uptime: 11:11AM up 19 mins, 2 users, load averages: 0.33, 0.38, 0.27 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, Dec 20, 2001 at 03:28:47PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah stood up and spoke: > > We're in codefreeze on the RELENG_4 branch, and if you build a kernel > from up-to-date sources, it'll say "4.5-PRERELEASE" and not > "4.4-STABLE". From now until 4.5-RELEASE, any commits to RELENG_4 get > reviewed by the release engineers first (with a few exceptions). > > murray announced this on one of the committers lists but I haven't seen > it anywhere else. I didn't see it anywhere else either, which is actually kind of sad. I guess not only the commiters on the commiters list would like to be updated about things like this. So, I guess, for "normal people" to be able to keep up with the events leading towards the release, wouldn't it be a good idea to mail a copy of such announcements to a more "general" place? -announce comes to my mind first, but if that one is only for announcing the actual release, probably -stable should do it, as it is highly likely that those who would like to know when the code is freezed so that they can CVSup and test it, are most likely subscribed to -stable. Just my $.02. Nils -- Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message