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. :) -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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