Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:52:44 GMT From: "Jett Tayer" <jett@angdatingdaan.com> To: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>, Nuno Teixeira <nuno.mailinglists@pt-quorum.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.5-PRERELEASE announcement ? Message-ID: <20011221135244.1037.qmail@www.angdatingdaan.com> In-Reply-To: <20011221112745.A2275@tisys.org> References: <20011220231545.GF29443@gw.tex.bogus> <200112202328.fBKNSmp01975@bmah.dyndns.org> <20011221112745.A2275@tisys.org>
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i have just updated my sources and after a succesful recompile. uname -a says it's now 4.5-PRERELEASE. so far i dont have any problems with this version. jett tayer Nils Holland writes: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 03:28:47PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah stood up and spoke: >> >> We're in codefreeze on the RELENG_4 branch, and if you build a kernel >> from up-to-date sources, it'll say "4.5-PRERELEASE" and not >> "4.4-STABLE". From now until 4.5-RELEASE, any commits to RELENG_4 get >> reviewed by the release engineers first (with a few exceptions). >> >> murray announced this on one of the committers lists but I haven't seen >> it anywhere else. > > I didn't see it anywhere else either, which is actually kind of sad. I > guess not only the commiters on the commiters list would like to be updated > about things like this. So, I guess, for "normal people" to be able to keep > up with the events leading towards the release, wouldn't it be a good idea > to mail a copy of such announcements to a more "general" place? -announce > comes to my mind first, but if that one is only for announcing the actual > release, probably -stable should do it, as it is highly likely that those > who would like to know when the code is freezed so that they can CVSup and > test it, are most likely subscribed to -stable. > > Just my $.02. > > Nils > > -- > Nils Holland > Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany > http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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