FreeBSD 7.0 Release Process
Introduction
This is a specific schedule for the release of FreeBSD 7.0. For more general information about the release engineering process, please see the Release Engineering section of the web site.
General discussions about the release engineering process or quality assurance issues should be sent to the public freebsd-qa mailing list. MFC requests should be sent to [email protected].
Schedule
| Action | Expected | Actual | Description |
| Reminder announcement | TBD | 15�Oct�2007 | Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule for the FreeBSD 7.0 release. |
| Announce the Ports Freeze | 23�Oct�2007 | 23�Oct�2007 | Someone from portmgr@ should email freebsd-ports@ to set a date for the week long ports freeze and tagging of the ports tree. |
| Code freeze begins | 18�June�2007 | 19�June�2007 | After this date, all commits to HEAD must be approved by [email protected]. Certain highly active documentation committers are exempt from this rule for routine man page / release note updates. Heads-up emails should be sent to the developers, as well as stable@ and qa@ lists. |
| Announce doc/ tree slush | TBD | 19�Nov�2007 | Notification of the impending doc/ tree slush should be sent to doc@. |
| Ports tree frozen | 30�Oct�2007 | 30�Oct�2007 | Only approved commits will be permitted to the ports/ tree during the freeze. |
| doc/ tree slush | 25�Nov�2007 | 25�Nov�2007 | Non-essential commits to the en_US.ISO8859-1/ subtree should be delayed from this point until after the doc/ tree tagging, to give translation teams time to synchronize their work. |
| doc/ tree tagged. | 5�Dec�2007 | 5�Dec�2007 | Version number bumps for doc/ subtree. RELEASE_7_0_0 tag for doc/. doc/ slush ends at this time. |
| RELENG_7 branch | -- | 11�Oct�2007 | The new major version branch is created. Update newvers.sh and release.ent on various branches involved. |
| BETA1 builds | 17�Oct�2007 | 19�Oct�2007 | Begin BETA1 builds. |
| BETA2 builds | 31�Oct�2007 | 31�Oct�2007 | Begin BETA2 builds. |
| BETA3 builds | 14�Nov�2007 | 16�Nov�2007 | Begin BETA3 builds. |
| BETA4 builds | 28�Nov�2007 | 2�Dec�2007 | Begin BETA4 builds. |
| RELENG_7_0 branch | 12�Dec�2007 | 22�Dec�2007 | The new release branch is created. Update newvers.sh and release.ent on various branches involved. |
| RC1 builds | 12�Dec�2007 | 22�Dec�2007 | Begin RC1 builds. |
| RC2 builds | 28�Jan�2008 | 7�Feb�2008 | Begin RC2 builds. |
| Ports tree tagged | 14�Dec�2007 | 11�Dec�2007 | RELEASE_7_0_0 tag for ports/. |
| Ports tree unfrozen | 14�Dec�2007 | 11�Dec�2007 | After the ports/ tree is tagged, the ports/ tree will be re-opened for commits, but commits made after tagging will not go in 7.0-RELEASE. |
| Final package build starts | 14�Dec�2007 | 12�Dec�2007 | The ports cluster and pointyhat build final packages. |
| RELEASE builds | 11�Feb�2008 | 23�Feb�2008 | Begin RELEASE builds. |
| Announcement | 26�Feb�2008 | 27�Feb�2008 | Announcement sent out after a majority of the mirrors have received the bits. |
| Turn over to the secteam | TBD | 5�Mar�2008 | RELENG_7_0 branch is handed over to the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the announcement. |