<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional-Based Extension//EN" [
<!ENTITY base CDATA "../..">
<!ENTITY email 'freebsd-qa'>
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD$">
<!ENTITY local.rel "7.3">
<!ENTITY local.rel.tag "7_3">
<!ENTITY contact.re '<a href="mailto:re@FreeBSD.org">re@FreeBSD.org</a>'>
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD &local.rel; Release Process">
<!ENTITY % navinclude.download "INCLUDE">
]>

<html>
&header;

  <h1>Introduction</h1>

  <p>This is a specific schedule for the release of FreeBSD &local.rel;.  For
    more general information about the release engineering process,
    please see the <a href="&base;/releng/index.html">Release
      Engineering</a> section of the web site.</p>

  <p>General discussions about the pending release and known issues should be
    sent to the public
    <a href="mailto:FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-stable</a> mailing list.
    <a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/freebsd-glossary.html#MFC-GLOSSARY">MFC</a>
    requests should be sent to &contact.re;.</p>

  <h1>Schedule</h1>

  <table class="tblbasic">
    <tr class="heading">
      <td>Action</td>
      <td>Expected</td>
      <td>Actual</td>
      <td>Description</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>Release schedule announcement</td>
      <td>&mdash;</td>
      <td>23&nbsp;January&nbsp;2010</td>
      <td>Release Engineers send announcement email to
	<tt>freebsd-stable@</tt> with a rough schedule for the &os;
	&local.rel; release.</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>Code freeze begins</td>
      <td>22&nbsp;January&nbsp;2010</td>
      <td>23&nbsp;January&nbsp;2010</td>
      <td>After this date, all commits to RELENG_7 must be approved by
	&contact.re;.  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 <tt>stable@</tt>
	and <tt>qa@</tt> lists.</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><tt>BETA1</tt> builds</td>
      <td>25&nbsp;January&nbsp;2010</td>
      <td>27&nbsp;January&nbsp;2010</td>
      <td>Begin BETA1 builds.</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>Announce <tt>doc/</tt> tree slush</td>
      <td>&mdash;</td>
      <td>31&nbsp;January&nbsp;2010</td>
      <td>Notification of the impending <tt>doc/</tt> tree slush should
	be sent to <tt>doc@</tt>.</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><tt>doc/</tt> tree slush</td>
      <td>5&nbsp;February&nbsp;2010</td>
      <td>5&nbsp;February&nbsp;2010</td>
      <td>Non-essential commits to the <tt>en_US.ISO8859-1/</tt> subtree
	should be delayed from this point until after the <tt>doc/</tt>
	tree tagging, to give translation teams time to synchronize
	their work.</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><tt>doc/</tt> tree tagged.</td>
      <td>10&nbsp;February&nbsp;2010</td>
      <td>10&nbsp;February&nbsp;2010</td>
      <td>Version number bumps for <tt>doc/</tt> subtree.
      <tt>RELEASE_&local.rel.tag;_0</tt> tag for <tt>doc/</tt>.  <tt>doc/</tt>
	slush ends at this time.</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>Ports tree feature freeze</td>
      <td>8&nbsp;February&nbsp;2010</td>
      <td>15&nbsp;February&nbsp;2010</td>
      <td>Only feature safe commits will be permitted to the <tt>ports/</tt>
	tree during the freeze.</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><tt>RELENG_7_3</tt> branch</td>
      <td>&mdash;</td>
      <td>10&nbsp;February&nbsp;2010</td>
      <td>The new release branch is created. Update <tt>newvers.sh</tt>
	and <tt>release.ent</tt> on various branches involved.</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><tt>RC1</tt> builds</td>
      <td>8&nbsp;February&nbsp;2010</td>
      <td>10&nbsp;February&nbsp;2010</td>
      <td>Begin RC1 builds.</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><tt>RC2</tt> builds</td>
      <td>22&nbsp;February&nbsp;2010</td>
      <td>1&nbsp;March&nbsp;2010</td>
      <td>Begin RC2 builds.</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><tt>RELENG_7_3_0_RELEASE</tt> tagged</td>
      <td>&mdash;</td>
      <td>21&nbsp;March&nbsp;2010</td>
      <td>The release tag for 7.3-RELEASE is set on RELENG_7_3 branch.</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><tt>RELEASE</tt> builds</td>
      <td>&mdash;</td>
      <td>21&nbsp;March&nbsp;2010</td>
      <td>Begin RELEASE builds.</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>Announcement</td>
      <td><strike>1&nbsp;March&nbsp;2010</strike><br>23&nbsp;March&nbsp;2010</td>
      <td>23&nbsp;March&nbsp;2010</td>
      <td>Announcement sent out after a majority of the mirrors have
	received the bits.</td>
    </tr>
  </table>

  <h1>Additional Information</h1>

  <ul>
<!--
    <li><a href="status.html">FreeBSD &local.rel; status page.</a></li>
-->
    <li><a href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Releng/7.3TODO">FreeBSD &local.rel; status page.</a></li>
    <li><a href="&base;/releng/index.html">FreeBSD Release Engineering website</a></li>
  </ul>

  &footer;

  </body>
</html>
