Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:04:09 -0800 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> To: developers@freebsd.org Cc: stable@freebsd.org, qa@freebsd.org Subject: Revised schedule for 4.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <20010322120409J.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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Hi folks, I've thought long and hard about this over the past week and I think we're going to need a bit more time to get 4-stable into the kind of shape I think we all *want* it to be in come release time. Now that people are really starting to ramp up and test the bits, we're getting some interesting reports and some of them may be indicative of issues which are rather severe. It's still too early to tell, but with the release date set for March 30th we also don't really have much time to find out or to fix any of the issues people are current identifying so, without further ado, here's my provisional revised schedule: March 26th: 4.3-RC1 April 2nd: 4.3-RC2 April 10th: 4.3-RC3 April 15th: 4.3-RELEASE Why three RC (Release Candidate) builds rather than just one? Because it seems that people really tend to test the RCs more than the -stable snapshots, which lack ISO images and any real sense of collective effort behind them. If we break this into three checkpoints, each on a Monday, we have a full week for people to syncronize themselves on that RC and make sure that: a) Any bugs they reported in the previous week are gone and b) There are no new bugs they can find. By April 15th, tax day** here in the US, I think we'll be ready to create a very good 4.3-RELEASE! Thanks, - Jordan ** And I already filed mine, so nyah nyah nyah! :-) :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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