From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 21 11:48:51 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 491B437B42A; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 11:48:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from colt.ncptiddische.net (ppp-228.wobline.de [212.68.69.239]) by mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/tw-20010821) with ESMTP id fBLJmH814706; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 20:48:17 +0100 Received: from tisys.org (jodie.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.2]) by colt.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBLJo6X40357; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 20:50:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Received: (from nils@localhost) by tisys.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBLJmx403045; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 20:48:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 20:48:24 +0100 From: Nils Holland To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.5-PRERELEASE announcement ? Message-ID: <20011221204824.A2848@tisys.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Bruce A. Mah" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20011220231545.GF29443@gw.tex.bogus> <200112202328.fBKNSmp01975@bmah.dyndns.org> <20011221112745.A2275@tisys.org> <200112211555.fBLFtMi50482@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: <200112211555.fBLFtMi50482@bmah.dyndns.org>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 07:55:21AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD jodie.ncptiddische.net 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-Machine-Uptime: 8:26PM up 10:23, 1 user, load averages: 0.24, 0.09, 0.03 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, Dec 21, 2001 at 07:55:21AM -0800, Bruce A. Mah stood up and spoke: > > Speaking as someone who works with the re team (but isn't a part of it), > I wouldn't interpret this omission as any change in policy. I'm sure > that murray didn't mean to keep non-committers "out of the loop" on the > state of 4.5-RELEASE...I bet he probably just forgot. For more > information on "the events leading towards the release", see this > timeline: I wouldn't interpret it as a change in policy either, and I'm also not complaining. I just suggested that whatever the official policy is, I thought it was a good idea to have such announcements available also on some "generally accessible" list. As I have heard that announcements also go to -qa, I'm quite happy ;-) Again, I didn't mean to make my message sound like a complaint. If it looked like that, sorry! [SNIP] > You realize, right, that you can *always* cvsup -STABLE and test it, > regardless of whether the branch is frozen or not, right? :-) Right, I guess that's what I'm going to do tomorrow ;-) Greetings 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