From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 18 14:56:49 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 443A3106564A for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:56:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org) Received: from saturn.lyxys.ka.sub.org (saturn.lyxys.ka.sub.org [217.29.35.151]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B5DC8FC16 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:56:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org) Received: from juno.lyxys.ka.sub.org (juno.lyxys.ka.sub.org [IPv6:2001:5c0:8521:0:20f:feff:fe0e:7312]) by saturn.lyxys.ka.sub.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n2IEuYOo072829 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:56:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org) Received: from juno.lyxys.ka.sub.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by juno.lyxys.ka.sub.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n2IEuXar024728 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:56:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org) Received: (from wolfgang@localhost) by juno.lyxys.ka.sub.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n2IEuXKg024727 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:56:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: juno.lyxys.ka.sub.org: wolfgang set sender to wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org using -f Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:56:33 +0100 From: Wolfgang Zenker To: freebsd-stable Message-ID: <20090318145633.GA24687@lyxys.ka.sub.org> References: <1237299551.80881.16.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <20090318102134.D55869@ns1.as.pvp.se> <1237380019.30298.3.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Organization: private site Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:56:49 -0000 * Robert Watson [090318 14:38]: > On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Ken Smith wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 10:23 +0100, kama wrote: >>> Is it possible to get back the todo page during this release phase? >> During the last couple of releases I simply didn't have time to do >> everything and this was one of the things that fell by the wayside. >> After the dust from 7.1 settled we started to make arrangements for >> someone else to set this up and watch over it for us during the release. >> It might take him a little time to get rolling with it (as in it might not >> appear immediately upon the release cycle starting) but hopefully we will >> have something along these lines come back at some point during this >> release. > While such lists do have downsides ("you shipped even though problem X on > your showstopper list wasn't fixed!") they also have some nice advantages > -- one is focusing user community testing time and developer community > fixing time. At least in the case of 7.2, though, I'm not aware of any > major outstanding problems, so focuses for testing are presumably just in > the areas of major change from 7.1. One change I have not seen mentioned on stable yet is that we now have localized libc messages. Might be a good idea to have a look at scripts that expect to see certain outputs from commands. Wolfgang