Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 07:55:21 -0800 From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) To: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>, Nuno Teixeira <nuno.mailinglists@pt-quorum.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.5-PRERELEASE announcement ? Message-ID: <200112211555.fBLFtMi50482@bmah.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20011221112745.A2275@tisys.org> References: <20011220231545.GF29443@gw.tex.bogus> <200112202328.fBKNSmp01975@bmah.dyndns.org> <20011221112745.A2275@tisys.org>
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If memory serves me right, 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, 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: http://www.freebsd.org/internal/releng45.html As you can see, the projected release date is a *month* away. There's plenty of time for more announcements between now and then, such as the release candidates that will come out in January 2002. > 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. You realize, right, that you can *always* cvsup -STABLE and test it, regardless of whether the branch is frozen or not, right? :-) Cheers, Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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