Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 23:03:11 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 11.1 ISO-IMAGES for alpha, beta and RC builds Message-ID: <6be7fab4-4e34-8adf-4f03-c8c59a3e544e@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <5942EB59.8040807@gmail.com> References: <5942EB59.8040807@gmail.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --eHccG8JdlH3OiFuFrENxI3j6GsMdATMRw Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="C38VABwb14HL16bf9sMKKgHoBcEKSFeDs"; protected-headers="v1" From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <6be7fab4-4e34-8adf-4f03-c8c59a3e544e@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: 11.1 ISO-IMAGES for alpha, beta and RC builds References: <5942EB59.8040807@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5942EB59.8040807@gmail.com> --C38VABwb14HL16bf9sMKKgHoBcEKSFeDs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 15/06/2017 21:17, Ernie Luzar wrote: > https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.1R/schedule.html >=20 > Shows no alpha builds. Is it normal to start the release build process > with beta builds skipping the alpha builds? >=20 > I see ISO-IMAGES for 11.1 beta1. I don't remembering seeing ISO-IMAGES > for previous alpha, beta and RC build releases. Is this a new change to= > existing procedures? Are we going to see ISO-IMAGES for alpha, beta an= d > RC builds from now on? >=20 > Where does snapshot prerelease fit into the alpha, beta and RC build > process? >=20 > Is this documented someplace? The alpha builds are internal to Release Engineering -- they're essentially just a sanity check that the code to go into the release doesn't have obvious problems. The beta builds are the first ones released to the public for wider testing, once RE is satisfied that they won't cause your machine to spit chunks of harddrive all over the floor or other faux-pas. Yes, pre-release iso images have been released historically for people to download and do test installs. It's pretty hard to get people to test releases in any case, so making it as convenient as possible for people to install is a good idea. The 'snapshot' referred to in the release schedule is a tag created in the code repository so that the precise BETA1 or BETA2 or whatever code can be checked out in a repeatable way. The BETAs are built against the 11-STABLE branch in SVN, which is the main and fairly active development branch for all 11.x code. So the BETAs could evolve quite rapidly, although we're in a code-freeze at the moment and all commits to 11-STABLE require RE approval. Once the BETAs have proven satisfactory, the 11.1-RELEASE branch will be created. This means two things: first, and commits to 11-STABLE after the branch point will not appear in 11.1-RELEASE unless specifically merged (so the RE lock on commit approvals to 11-STABLE will be lifted). Second: the release branch is effectively in feature-freeze at this point and only fixes for issues discovered during testing will be applied= =2E This is basically the same process that has been used since around 6.0-RELEASE. Cheers, Matthew --C38VABwb14HL16bf9sMKKgHoBcEKSFeDs-- --eHccG8JdlH3OiFuFrENxI3j6GsMdATMRw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJZQwQlXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ2NTNBNjhCOTEzQTRFNkNGM0UxRTEzMjZC QjIzQUY1MThFMUE0MDEzAAoJELsjr1GOGkAT9BwQAI9HZwurHKQayAtsmXqfJYxE e/imdIE2PrnXgVGpJTYRTisSF4PORo4b2nlLC/yktLZnrPN3QSSZZJjh2jVlrBgb 783XPaBp6vgHe0IGB7cybvz407mJBEYXaOXv1EYGrVKTdNBbvJh8zy/vKctJ3uHR N9ylrVndNFRlmbmTbW5bPRV1n5126uaQ1KfLoh6Td6++nykT9dj9VFtcstCOrXFs ZNDCE2I21AmKLMBTVLZ1mLjNNY6oTX2A+/djAKndFqqmJ0TPfW0ZIgS8N8PbYnOf F6UqQDCmA/RRYLRy0YKCChyKxuyglYobaLkunoHuEezl5jfJ5orPozRpdaXBZs/U hy0kVAuO+5O8M2Nh8d6ebzbAM0u0jDQGh0ST+QoG5X9hkwrdXnC93BbAzmDHcVIr +zLFwsRtpIrElu2R4yuDwirAigGH0Tuf/FRmZ/HpEyOgy6PycpKP4I5mAwenxMNZ oDHJXjVUmKMLDUi6e/qMnmOvBCBDcLthWpMczp9Qc0LE8WF8obUUlbZP79hr6fnN bMOAJG2yP2wy81lRKEcqLViXuztpT/L86S87zT5vHPwq45+nfEw4bJ3CLX21fADr H4ZeSvGaCgkIj3Tl/fu0T0kwpotOvohfczli9Ss3/zg4nMV+3eXAjx3ITbvzvhlh N3SuFTjqOcBkicQ8jOJg =18SB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --eHccG8JdlH3OiFuFrENxI3j6GsMdATMRw--
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