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Date:      Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:23:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com>
Cc:        asami@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.1 Release testing...
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000712112316.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200007121814.OAA64708@spoon.beta.com>

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On 12-Jul-00 Brian J. McGovern wrote:
> 
>  > 
>  > On 12-Jul-00 Brian J. McGovern wrote:
>  > > Sorry I've been so quiet. It appears that mail to me from freefall has
> been
>  > > hanging up until this morning. At least now I'm caught up (just in time
> to
>  > > change ISPs... ;) )
>  > > 
>  > > Anyhow, if everyone is serious about a code freeze on 7/20 for release
> on
>  > > 7/25, how about this for a timetable....
>  > > 
>  > > ISO images to be cut on 7/14, 7/17, 7/20 (at 'code freeze'), and 7/22.
>  > 
>  > So, we don't _have_ to have packages on the 14th and 17th, it would just
>  > be nice?  Satoshi, do you have any recent package builds we could use to
>  > build a full CD #1 sitting on the build cluster?
>  > 
> 
> Given that most of the bugs occur in the OS, and the package related bugs
> tend to be a dependency missing, I think it would be wise  get our hands on
> the OS ASAP. Given that the test cycle is so short, I'd rather the bandwidth
> early on go to downloading a small ISO image and test, rather than
> downloading
> a larger ISO image w/packages (which are usually at least the size of the OS,
> if not larger), and getting less test time.
> 
> Given that most of the 'bugs' with packages usually revolve around
> dependencies missing, or problems with the unpackaging, I think we can put
> them
> off a few days, and get a number of OS bugs shaken out first.
>       -Brian

It should not be a problem to have an ISO by the 14th then.  If Jordan
doesn't want to do it, then I'll roll a releng_4 release snapshot here
at work and then get him to stick the FTP bits and the ISO in the
appropriate places. :)

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