Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:56:33 +0100 From: Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org> To: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting... Message-ID: <20090318145633.GA24687@lyxys.ka.sub.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903181335160.99720@fledge.watson.org> References: <1237299551.80881.16.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <20090318102134.D55869@ns1.as.pvp.se> <1237380019.30298.3.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903181335160.99720@fledge.watson.org>
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* Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> [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
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