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Date:      Sat, 19 Jan 2002 06:24:02 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
To:        murray@FreeBSD.ORG (Murray Stokely)
Cc:        qa@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RELENG_4_5 Branch : January 21 ?
Message-ID:  <200201190424.g0J4O3M97256@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <20020119015249.GD18200@freebsdmall.com> from Murray Stokely at "Jan 18, 2002 05:52:49 pm"

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Why not do it in the RELENG_4 tree? Maybe start with it even before RC1 (in
the future). There is nothing that says the documentation shipped with the
RCs shouldn't already claim 4.5 or is there? I think you will get more eyes
on it in the RELENG_4 branch.

>   I think that it would be beneficial to create the release branch a
> few days earlier than normal, and release the third release candidate
> directly from the RELENG_4_5 branch.  This would allow us to do a
> number of things, such as :
> 
>   1. Update all of the release notes / documentation for the final
>      release, so that this can be reviewed by our users in RC3 to make
>      sure nothing is left out.
> 
>   2. Unfreeze RELENG_4, so that regular development can continue.
> 
>   The 'RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE' tag remains, as always, the label for the
> final release on the release branch.
> 
>   Thoughts?  
> 
> 	- Murray

John
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John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org

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