Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting...

2009-03-21 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, kama wrote: What I meant was the todo page on www.freebsd.org. Like: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/TODO.html Where problems and showstoppers where brought up. I found that information very valueble. Especially when the release went overdue I could easily see

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting...

2009-03-21 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Robert Watson (rwat...@freebsd.org) wrote: It would probably be worth skimming svn logs for stable/7 to see what other testing focuses would be particularly useful. In case it's of use, I have full searchable SVN history here: http://beta.freshbsd.org/?q=branch:RELENG_7 -- Thomas

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting...

2009-03-21 Thread Aristedes Maniatis
On 21/03/2009, at 10:49 PM, Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, kama wrote: What I meant was the todo page on www.freebsd.org. Like: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/TODO.html Where problems and showstoppers where brought up. I found that information very valueble. Especially

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting...

2009-03-21 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 09:18:03AM +1100, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: Is there any way to automatically create such a page from the bug tracker? Not that fills in the dates, no. We are working on a prototype to track particular PRs. mcl ___

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting...

2009-03-19 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Jack Raats wrote: One of the most important things for us to keep an eye on in this release is that the boot loader now works on a number of pieces of hardware on which it reressed for 6.4/7.1. If it proves successful, we'll likely also do errata notes and roll new ISOs

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting...

2009-03-19 Thread Jack Raats
- Original Message - From: Robert Watson rwat...@freebsd.org One of the most important things for us to keep an eye on in this release is that the boot loader now works on a number of pieces of hardware on which it reressed for 6.4/7.1. If it proves successful, we'll likely also do

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting...

2009-03-19 Thread Jack Raats
From: Robert Watson rwat...@freebsd.org About FreeBSD 6.4. If you consider to make new 6.4 iso's, perhaps it would be better to think about an 6.5 release It's a question of bandwidth for the release engineering team, ports team, security officer team, etc -- I think a 6.5 is pretty much

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting...

2009-03-19 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 19 March 2009 5:34:12 am Robert Watson wrote: For me the distinction remains fuzzy, but I think a key to either approach would be avoiding having to fully re-QA, do BETAs, build new packages, etc. This suggests taking RELENG_6_4 on some date, perhaps rebranching if it's a point

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting...

2009-03-18 Thread kama
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Ken Smith wrote: We're starting the release process for FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE. The major highlights of the schedule are: Code Freeze:March 23rd BETA1 March 30th Branch April 10th RC1

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting...

2009-03-18 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, kama wrote: Since it's often the case that developers process quite a few outstanding MFCs during the last couple days before a code freeze starts I have changed RELENG_7 to say it is 7.2-PRERELEASE now as a bit of a heads-up that the release cycle is imminent. You

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting...

2009-03-18 Thread kama
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, kama wrote: Since it's often the case that developers process quite a few outstanding MFCs during the last couple days before a code freeze starts I have changed RELENG_7 to say it is 7.2-PRERELEASE now as a bit of a

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting...

2009-03-18 Thread Ken Smith
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

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting...

2009-03-18 Thread Nenhum_de_Nos
On Wed, March 18, 2009 08:38, Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, kama wrote: Since it's often the case that developers process quite a few outstanding MFCs during the last couple days before a code freeze starts I have changed RELENG_7 to say it is 7.2-PRERELEASE now as a bit of a

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting...

2009-03-18 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Robert Watson wrote: What I meant was the todo page on www.freebsd.org. Like: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/TODO.html The above link is giving Error 404 : Not found . http://www.freebsd.org/releases/http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/TODO.htmlpage does NOT

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting...

2009-03-18 Thread Robert Watson
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.

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting...

2009-03-18 Thread Wolfgang Zenker
* Robert Watson rwat...@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

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting...

2009-03-18 Thread Stef Walter
Robert Watson wrote: One of the most important things for us to keep an eye on in this release is that the boot loader now works on a number of pieces of hardware on which it reressed for 6.4/7.1. If it proves successful, we'll likely also do errata notes and roll new ISOs for 6.4. I have a

FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting...

2009-03-17 Thread Ken Smith
We're starting the release process for FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE. The major highlights of the schedule are: Code Freeze:March 23rd BETA1 March 30th Branch April 10th RC1 April 13th RC2

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting...

2009-03-17 Thread Holger Kipp
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:19:11AM -0400, Ken Smith wrote: We're starting the release process for FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE. The major highlights of the schedule are: Is there a chance the latest ZFS bugfixes from CURRENT will make it into 7.2-RELEASE? Regards, Holger