Re: HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon

From: The Anarcat (anarcat_at_anarcat.ath.cx)
Date: 05/29/03

  • Next message: Thorsten Futrega: "Re: HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon"
    Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 13:29:20 -0400
    To: Thorsten Futrega <tfutrega@yahoo.co.uk>
    
    
    

    On the tune of some cute Ramones song...

    "Beat on the Troll
    Beat on the Troll
    Beat on the Troll
    With a baseball bat
    Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Oh yeah!"

    A.

    On Thu May 29, 2003 at 06:18:42PM +0100, Thorsten Futrega wrote:
    > Dear users,
    >
    > The HEAD code freeze was extended by three days to
    > allow for some final pending work to be committed and
    > prepare 5.1 to be a good release. The code freeze will
    >
    > likely end sometime tomorrow, May 30.
    >
    > We ask that large scale changes still be deferred
    > until after 5.1 is actually released so that any
    > problems can be dealt with. The release
    > engineering team will send out emails explicitely
    > stating when HEAD has thawed and when large changes
    > like new compilers and dynamic-linked worlds can go
    > it.
    >
    > The most important changes I'm going to commit today:
    >
    > - Remove gcc and replace it with a new TenDRA
    > snapshot.
    > - Remove GNU tar.
    > - Fix httpd.ko to make it work on buggy AMD
    > processors.
    > - Drop support for 386 and 486 cpus.
    > - Remove ext2 support (GPL encumbered).
    > - Add perl 5.8 *and* python 2.2 to base.
    > - Remove Sendmail and replace it with Postfix.
    >
    > If anyone has any reason why these should not be
    > committed, I'll give a 5 hours grace time. Send
    > replies
    > to the list.
    >
    > Thank you.
    >
    > Thorsten and the rest or the release engineering team.
    >
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