Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:01:26 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com> Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG, asami@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: 4.1 Release testing... Message-ID: <XFMail.000712110126.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200007121139.HAA63567@spoon.beta.com>
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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? > By 7/24, all feedback in to Jordan for a go/no go decision. If there is still > a show stopping bug, bump the release to 7/28, and roll another RC on 7/25. > Continue bumping the release by 3 days as needed to squish the show-stopping > bugs. > > Now, I'm sure Jordan is squirming over bumping back the release date, but I'd > like to remind everyone that on 4.0, Jordan released the image before he read > my mail that we slipped in a bug the night before in sysinstall that causes > it > to crash when selecting a custom install. This effectively rendered my 4.0 > CDs useless, as every time I want to play with 4.0, I have to go make > floppies to boot from. > > Now, with this schedule, it a.) gives people time to download, and b.) we'll > get one full cut of the CD either at 7/20 and/or 7/22, depending on when > Jordan gets the full package set together. > > The last thing that needs to be done is we need to pick a machine that has > reasonable speeds for the most people. In the past, this was releng3, but it > no longer seems to be alive. ftp.cdrom.com won't cut it, unless we can all > download at 5am... Suggestions? releng4 exists and works fine. :) It also has the daily snaps on it so that people can start testing early if they wish. > Comments? > > -Brian -- 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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