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Date:      Thu, 9 Jan 2003 17:48:20 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>, Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>, re-builders@FreeBSD.ORG, bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 5.0-RC3
Message-ID:  <20030110014820.GB17013@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030110013649.GA48225@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <200301090031.h090V5Ar017298@intruder.bmah.org> <3E1CC4F3.90206@btc.adaptec.com> <3E1DDF76.9010407@btc.adaptec.com> <20030110.095134.71175444.nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org> <3E1E1A7C.2020406@btc.adaptec.com> <20030110012549.GA17013@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030110013649.GA48225@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:36:49PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:25:49PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > Let's start the release and have Takahashi-san apply Soren's
> > patch as an exception. That way it gets some testing and
> > should increase confidence for a post-RC3 merge.
> 
> Actually that is the opposite of what should happen -- we need to have
> Soren's MFC exposed as widely as possible if it is to be in 5.0-R.  The
> way we can get wide[r] coverage is putting it in RC3.

I don't know what the change is, but if it has possible impact on
non-pc98, then yes.

> > BTW: could we have a policy on the release branch (or HEAD if
> > that's what we're releasing from) that commits are disallowed
> > at least 2 hours before the release starts. That way all
> > changes have been propagated without having to worry about
> > getting that last commit. Exceptions allowed of course.
> 
> CVSup from freefall/repoman.

It's better to stop rushing things in... I like at least 5 hours
so that I can run a buildworld first, prepare the box and optionally
start a release early (which I will abort) to flush out commandline
screwups and have enough time to fix last minute bogons...

-- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net

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