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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Expected</td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Reminder announcement</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">01 Apr 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">09 Apr 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Release Engineers send announcement email to
<tt>developers@FreeBSD.org</tt> with a rough schedule for the FreeBSD 4.6
release.</td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">4.6-PRERELEASE Testing Guide published</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Ongoing</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">--</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">A <a href="../../releases/4.6R/qa.html" shape="rect">testing guide</a>
should be published with information about recent changes and
areas of the system that should be thoroughly tested during the
pre-release/RC period.</td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><tt>4.6-PRERELEASE</tt></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">01 May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">01 May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><tt>newvers.sh</tt>, and <tt>release.ent</tt> updated.</td>
</tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">FTP site updated</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">01 May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">18 May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><tt>pkg_add -r</tt> works for <tt>4.6-PRERELEASE</tt> machines.</td>
</tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Code freeze begins</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">01 May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">01 May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">After this date, all commits to the <tt>RELENG_4</tt> branch
must be approved by <a href="mailto:re@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">re@FreeBSD.org</a>. 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 <tt>developers@</tt>, <tt>stable@</tt>
and <tt>qa@</tt> lists.</td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Commercial software demos updated.</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">15 May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">--</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">The second disc contains commercial software demos, these
demos should be updated to contain the latest versions.</td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><tt>4.6-RC</tt></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">15 May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">15 May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><tt>newvers.sh</tt> and <tt>release.ent</tt> updated.</td>
</tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Announce the Ports Freeze</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">15 May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">19 May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Someone from <tt>portmgr</tt> should email
<tt>freebsd-ports@</tt> and BCC: <tt>developers@</tt> to set a date
for the week long ports freeze and tagging of the ports tree.</td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Heads up to hubs</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">28 May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">--</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">A message should be sent to
<tt>freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.org</tt> before the release is uploaded. The
site administrators have frequently requested advance notice for
new ISOs.</td>
</tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">First release candidate</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">16 May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">17 May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">The first release candidate for the x86 and Alpha architecture is
released. ISO images should be uploaded to
<tt>ftp-master.FreeBSD.org</tt> and
<tt>releng4.FreeBSD.org</tt>. A network install directory should
be uploaded to <tt>ftp-master.FreeBSD.org</tt>. The
<tt>packages/</tt> and <tt>XF86336/</tt> directories may be
symlinked to save space, as long as you're sure to use
<em>relative</em> symlinks.</td>
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<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Heads up to <tt>-stable</tt></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">17 May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">17 May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">A message should be sent to <tt>qa@FreeBSD.org</tt> and
<tt>stable@FreeBSD.org</tt> after the snapshot is uploaded.</td>
</tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Package split posted</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">17 May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">--</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">The proposed package split (which packages go on which disc of
the 4 CD set) should be posted to <tt>qa@FreeBSD.org</tt>,
<tt>ports@FreeBSD.org</tt>, and <tt>stable@FreeBSD.org</tt>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Second release candidate</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">?? May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">18 May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Note: the release date of this candidate depends on the user
experience with RC1.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Third release candidate</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">--</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">--</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">There will be no 4.6 RC3 snapshot.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Ports tree frozen.</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">24 May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">25 May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><tt>CVSROOT/avail</tt> locks out everyone but the person who
does the tagging. It will take approximately 2 hours to tag the
entire ports tree with the <tt>RELEASE_4_6_0</tt> tag. After
this time, the ports/ tree will be re-opened for commits, but
commits made after tagging will not go in 4.6-RELEASE.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Final package build starts</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">25 May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">--</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">The ports cluster and <a href="http://bento.FreeBSD.org/" shape="rect">bento</a>
build final packages.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Package split</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">26 May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">--</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">The packages must be split so that packages with similar
dependencies appear on each of the four discs, with the most
popular packages appearing on the first disc.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><tt>doc/</tt> tree tagged.</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">27 May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">27 May 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><tt>RELEASE_4_6_0</tt> tag for docs.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Fourth release candidate</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">3 June 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">6 June 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">4.6 RC4 for the x86 and Alpha architectures will be made
available from <tt>ftp.FreeBSD.org</tt> and the mirrors.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><tt>RELENG_4_6</tt> branch</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">5 June 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">6 June 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">The release branch is created.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Note to freebsd-stable@</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">5 June 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">6 June 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">A note should be sent to the <tt>freebsd-stable@</tt> to let
over-anxious users know that the tags have been created but the
release still isn't ready. Tags may be slid before the
announcement goes out. Point users to <tt>freebsd-qa@</tt> for
details.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Version numbers bumped.</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">5 June 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">8 June 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">The files listed <a href="../../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.html#versionbump" shape="rect">here</a>
are updated to reflect the fact that this is FreeBSD 4.6.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Update man.cgi on the website.</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">6 June 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">3 June 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Make sure the 4.6 manual pages are being displayed by default
for the man->web gateway. Also make sure these man pages are
pointed to by docs.xml.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><tt>src</tt> tree tagged.</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">10 June 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">10 June 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><tt>RELENG_4_6_0_RELEASE</tt> tag for src.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Final builds.</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">10 June 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">--</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Final builds for x86 and Alpha in a pristine environment.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Warn <tt>hubs@FreeBSD.org</tt></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">10 June 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">11 June 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Heads up email to <a href="mailto:hubs@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">hubs@FreeBSD.org</a> to give admins
time to prepare for the load spike to come.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Upload to <tt>ftp-master</tt>.</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">10 June 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">14 June 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">release and packages uploaded to <tt>ftp-master.FreeBSD.org</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Announcement</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">10 Jun 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">15 June 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Announcement sent out after a majority of the mirrors have
received the bits.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Unfreeze the tree</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">10 June 2002</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">16 June</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Announcement to developers@ explaining that the release is
out, and commits to <tt>RELENG_4</tt> no longer require approval. Also
note the policy for commits to the <tt>RELENG_4_6</tt> branch.</td>
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