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<p>This page contains documentation about the FreeBSD release
engineering process.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#schedule">Upcoming Release Schedule</a>.</li>
<li><a href="#freeze">Code Freeze Status</a>.</li>
<li><a href="&base;/releng/charter.html">Charter for the Release
Engineering Team</a>.</li>
<li><a href="#docs">Release Engineering Documentation</a>.</li>
<li><a href="#team">Current Release Engineering Team</a>.</li>
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<a name="schedule"></a>
<h1>Upcoming Release Schedule</h1>
<ul>
<li><p><strong>March 24, 2003</strong> : <a href="&base;/releases/4.8R/schedule.html">FreeBSD 4.8</a></p></li>
</ul>
<a name="freeze"></a>
<h1>Code-Freeze Status</h1>
<p>The following table lists the code freeze status for the major
branches of the <tt>src/</tt> subtree of the FreeBSD CVS
repository. Commits to any branch listed as "frozen" must first be
reviewed and approved by the relevant contact party.</p>
<p>Note that the <tt>ports/</tt>, <tt>doc/</tt>, and <tt>www/</tt>
subtrees are not branched and not covered by this table.</p>
<table border="3" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<th> Branch </th>
<th> Status </th>
<th> Contact </th>
<th> Notes </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> <tt>HEAD</tt> </td>
<td> Semi-Frozen </td>
<td> &contact.re; </td>
<td> Active development branch for -CURRENT. Commits to this
branch will be in 5.1-RELEASE and 5-STABLE. Sometime around
the release of 5.1-RELEASE or 5.2-RELEASE, we will branch RELENG_5 (for 5-STABLE) and this
branch will then be known at 6-CURRENT. With that in mind,
developers should treat this as a "STABLE" branch for the next few
months and focus on fixing bugs to make 5-STABLE a success.
Invasive commits to <tt>HEAD</tt> must be coordinated and approved
by &contact.re;.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> <tt>RELENG_5_0</tt> </td>
<td> Frozen </td>
<td> &contact.so; </td>
<td> FreeBSD 5.0 supported security fix branch. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> <tt>RELENG_4</tt> </td>
<td> Frozen </td>
<td> &contact.re; </td>
<td> Development branch for 4-STABLE. Currently in code-freeze in preparation
for FreeBSD 4.8. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> <tt>RELENG_4_7</tt> </td>
<td> Frozen </td>
<td> &contact.so; </td>
<td> FreeBSD 4.7 supported security fix branch. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> <tt>RELENG_4_6</tt> </td>
<td> Frozen </td>
<td> &contact.so; </td>
<td> FreeBSD 4.6 supported security fix branch. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> <tt>RELENG_4_5</tt> </td>
<td> Frozen </td>
<td> &contact.so; </td>
<td> FreeBSD 4.5 security fix branch (not officially supported). </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> <tt>RELENG_4_4</tt> </td>
<td> Frozen </td>
<td> &contact.so; </td>
<td> FreeBSD 4.4 security fix branch (not officially supported). </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> <tt>RELENG_4_3</tt> </td>
<td> Frozen </td>
<td> &contact.so; </td>
<td> FreeBSD 4.3 security fix branch (not officially supported). </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> <tt>RELENG_3</tt> </td>
<td> Open </td>
<td> committers </td>
<td> Maintenance branch for 3-STABLE (not officially supported). </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> <tt>RELENG_2_2</tt> </td>
<td> Open </td>
<td> committers </td>
<td> Maintenance branch for 2.2-STABLE (not officially supported). </td>
</tr>
</table>
<a name="docs"></a>
<h1>Release Engineering Documentation</h1>
<ul>
<li><p><a
href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/index.html">FreeBSD
Release Engineering</a><br>
<small>Describes the approach used by the FreeBSD release
engineering team to make production quality releases of the
FreeBSD Operating System. It describes the tools available
for those interested in producing customized FreeBSD releases
for corporate rollouts or commercial
productization.</small></p></li>
<li><p><a
href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng-packages/index.html">FreeBSD
Release Engineering for Third Party Packages</a><br>
<small>Describes the approach used by the FreeBSD release
engineering team to produce a high quality package set
suitable for official FreeBSD release media. This document is
a work in progress, but eventually it will cover the process
used to build a clean package set on the FreeBSD.org "Ports
Cluster", how to configure any other set of machines as a
ports cluster, how to split up the packages for the release
media, and how to verify that a package set is
consistent.</small></p></li>
<li><p><a
href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/5-roadmap/index.html">FreeBSD
5-STABLE Roadmap</a><br>
<small>Describes the roadmap for the project for reaching the RELENG_5
branch. Includes overall status of 5.x, what's left to be done, and
tentative schedules.</small></p></li>
</ul>
<a name="team"></a>
<h1>Release Engineering Team</h1>
<p>The primary release engineering team is responsible for approving
<a
href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#DEFINE-MFC">MFC</a>
requests during code freezes, setting release schedules, and all of
the other responsibilities laid out in our <a
href="&base;/releng/charter.html">charter</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Primary RE Team (<a
href="mailto:re@FreeBSD.org">re@FreeBSD.org</a>)</strong> :
&a.murray;, &a.steve;, &a.rwatson;, &a.jhb;, &a.bmah;, &a.kris;, and
&a.scottl; form the primary release engineering decision-making
group.</p>
<p>The platform-specific release engineering teams are responsible for
building and packaging FreeBSD releases on the given platforms.</p>
<p><strong>Alpha Platform REs (<a
href="mailto:re-alpha@FreeBSD.org">re-alpha@FreeBSD.org</a>)</strong> :
&a.wilko;, &a.obrien;, &a.murray;, &a.jhb;, &a.rwatson;, &a.scottl;, &a.kris;</p>
<p><strong>ia64 Platform REs (<a
href="mailto:re-ia64@FreeBSD.org">re-ia64@FreeBSD.org</a>)</strong> :
&a.marcel;, &a.peter;</p>
<p><strong>i386 Platform REs (<a
href="mailto:re-x86@FreeBSD.org">re-x86@FreeBSD.org</a>)</strong> :
&a.murray;, &a.jhb;, &a.rwatson;, &a.bmah;, &a.scottl;, &a.kris;</p>
<p><strong>pc98 Platform REs (<a
href="mailto:re-pc98@FreeBSD.org">re-pc98@FreeBSD.org</a>)</strong> :
&a.nyan;</p>
<p><strong>sparc64 Platform REs (<a
href="mailto:re-sparc64@FreeBSD.org">re-sparc64@FreeBSD.org</a>)</strong> :
&a.jake;, &a.tmm;, &a.rwatson;, &a.jhb;, &a.murray;, &a.phk;, &a.scottl;,
&a.kris;</p>
<p>The third party packages in the Ports Collection are managed by the
portmgr@ team. Among many other responsibilities, the port managers
keep the ports cluster running smoothly to produce binary
packages.</p>
<p><strong>Package Builders (<a
href="mailto:portmgr@FreeBSD.org">portmgr@FreeBSD.org</a>)</strong> :
&a.asami;, &a.kris;, &a.sobomax;, &a.steve;, &a.will;, &a.knu;</p>
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