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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 
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