FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting...

[Wolfgang Zenker]

* Robert Watson <rwatson at 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