From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 21 6: 4:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAABA37B419; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 06:04:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id fBLE4Ji98232; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 09:04:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 09:04:19 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Nils Holland Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" , Nuno Teixeira , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.5-PRERELEASE announcement ? In-Reply-To: <20011221112745.A2275@tisys.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Nils Holland wrote: > 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. I know that announcements have also been going to the qa@FreeBSD.org list, which is the public list for release process discussion. The announcement should probably also have been CC'd to -STABLE, I'll bug Murray. :-) Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message