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[20081118]
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NetBSD 5.0 release cycle - status update
OK, it's
en vogue to hype unreleased software these days,
so here is an
status update of the NetBSD 5.0 release. Citing from a posting
by Alistair Crooks:
- release engineering would really like to hear the results of your
testing. It's you that can help us make 5.0 even better than it is
right now. Even something simple like "Installed on $X computer and
is currently running great!". We can't track everything ourselves,
and direct reports from individuals are very helpful in assessing
the state of the tree.
No official way on reporting has been proposed (yet), but
we're looking forward to involve our community into the
release process. YOU can make a difference! (And we're a
volunteer project, too, after all ;-)
- progress in the last week has been good - some great pullups to the
branch have been made, including pullups to improve FP stability on amd64,
and to point to binary packages on the project ftp server, amongst
many, many others. Please see the source-changes mailing list for a more
detailed list of these pullups.
- We still need to knock some critical PRs on the head - if you could
help out with any of those, please see the PR list; if you could, we'd be very grateful (see community involvement, above :)
- The latest binary snapshots are available from
the releng build status page
Happy testing!
[Tags: releases]
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