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Add 6 more action items to the release schedule. Also note that we

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must use RELATIVE symlinks on ftp-master, as my fingers often forget
this.

Some of these items appear on this schedule only after we do them, but
I still think it is worth documenting, so we can use this for 4.6.
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN" [
<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
<!ENTITY email 'freebsd-qa'>
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/internal/releng45.sgml,v 1.8 2001/12/31 09:17:20 murray Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/internal/releng45.sgml,v 1.9 2002/01/09 04:20:25 murray Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD 4.5 Release Process">
<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %includes;
]>
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demos should be updated to contain the latest versions.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>4.5-RC</tt></td>
<td>09 Jan 2002</td>
<td>09 Jan 2002</td>
<td><tt>newvers.sh</tt> updated.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Announce the Ports Freeze</td>
<td>09 Jan 2002</td>
<td>09 Jan 2002</td>
<td>Someone from <tt>portmgr</tt> should email
<tt>freebsd-ports@</tt> and CC: <tt>developers@</tt> to set a date
for the tagging of the ports tree. Will set this date at January
22nd.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Heads up to hubs</td>
<td>09 Jan 2002</td>
<td>09 Jan 2002</td>
<td>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>
<tr>
<td>First release candidate</td>
<td>09 Jan 2002</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>09 Jan 2002</td>
<td>The first release candidate for the x86 and Alpha architecture is
released.</td>
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.
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Heads up to -stable</td>
<td>09 Jan 2002</td>
<td>09 Jan 2002</td>
<td>A message should be sent to <tt>qa@FreeBSD.org</tt> and
<tt>stable@FreeBSD.org</tt> after the release is uploaded.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
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quality of RC1/2.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ports tree frozen.</td>
<td>22 Jan 2002</td>
<td>--</td>
<td><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_5_0</tt> tag. After
this time, the ports/ tree will be re-opened for commits, but
commits made after tagging will not go in 4.5-RELEASE.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Final package build starts
<td>22 Jan 2002</td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td>Warn hubs@FreeBSD.org</td>
<td>Warn <tt>hubs@FreeBSD.org</tt></td>
<td>25 Jan 2002</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>Heads up email to <a
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</tr>
<tr>
<td>Upload to ftp-master.</td>
<td>Upload to <Tt>ftp-master</tt>.</td>
<td>25 Jan 2002</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>release and packages uploaded to ftp-master.FreeBSD.org</td>
<td>release and packages uploaded to <tt>ftp-master.FreeBSD.org</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>