From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 27 02:47:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFC1116A4CE for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 02:47:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CA4043D2D for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 02:47:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from slackatefn@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so261476wri for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:47:51 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=K6ij5lIRvTh4iXlZnidhTR2lAbyvjtqRpnRJ/9R/J0hbLinnUQB2KRSASqsZEWgc6MzZPM4WVg3sXJTO3fFuHw49TpnzxSHVaeAFwRsGHNjFWAnWFjXr3/RfskJ/ZwlI6yd5bbjlL8LtZCLR6dT+t5NhSRF5uY2EwAFfQmH2flY= Received: by 10.38.77.65 with SMTP id z65mr897755rna; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:47:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.99.40 with HTTP; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:47:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <91b5ebb0410261947192bd6f8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:47:50 -0300 From: Martin Chikilian To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: RE: Plan for 5.3-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Martin Chikilian List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 02:47:55 -0000 Hi Scott and lists. With all of this, i expect to keep testing RC1, and RC2 should come before 5.3 to be completely released. If 5.3 is scheduled to be released in 7-10 days, you could release -RC2 in next 3-5 days so we've the posibility to test fixed things that might not be in current -RC1. Just an idea. Cya, Martin > All, > Today was supposed to be the release day for 5.3, but some serious > show-stoppers came to light yesterday. Since the purpose of 5.3 is to > have a functionally stable release that is suitable for migrating to, > we decided to hold up 5.3 until these issues are fixed. The first issue > deals with TCP SACK problems that result in a livelocked system. The > second involves GDB leaving threaded processes in an unkillable state. > Fixes for both are under review and will be committed to RELENG_5 in a > few days when preliminary testing is complete. > I've also turned off ULE to help narrow down many of the ambiguous > problems that are still being reported. ULE works fine for some, but > it must be eliminated from the environment when you suspect a bug. > I expect to keep ULE off in 5.x until the rate of other problem reports > and decreased and someone takes an active interest in it. > Please continue to test RC1. At this point I'm not going to promise a > particular date for 5.3-RELEASE, but I would expect it in the next 7-10 > days assuming nothing else significant comes up. > Scott