From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 20 13:41:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FDDE16A47B for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:41:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46C2B43D72 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:40:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr5so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.8]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J91009KE7CDMP30@l-daemon> for stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 06:41:01 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml7so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.151]) by pd2mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTP id <0J9100AG97CDT1X1@pd2mr5so.prod.shaw.ca> for stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 06:41:01 -0700 (MST) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0J91008787CCWWC1@l-daemon> for stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 06:41:01 -0700 (MST) Received: (qmail 855 invoked from network); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:40:52 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:40:52 +0000 Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 05:40:52 -0800 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <000101c70ca1$c1aa2610$2603fb93@KLOBOUCEK> To: Petr Holub Message-id: <4561B064.7040702@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 References: <000101c70ca1$c1aa2610$2603fb93@KLOBOUCEK> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060416) Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update to track release engineering X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:41:14 -0000 Petr Holub wrote: > I wonder if it would be possible to use freebsd-update to > track release engineering process towards release. For me > it would be interesting to track the development throgh > Betas and RCs all the way to RELEASE, while avoiding building > everything from source or using binary updates. I think this > approach might also encourage more people to help with testing > the Betas and RCs and also helps with slipping release > dates. Is anybody thinking about this? I'm working on it. Colin Percival