Re: status of 7.0

Marc UBM Bocklet wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 11:15:49 +0100 (BST)
> Robert Watson <rwatson_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Paul Eskello wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I was wondering when to expect 7.0 release ? Did I miss the
>>> schedule. Any showstoppers ? when to expect RC1 ?
>>>
>>> Just curious.
>>>
>>> Have a great weekend.
>>>       
>> Ken may respond in a more detailed form, but the current stage is
>> that we are waiting for the feature set to finally settle and some
>> known outstanding issues to resolve themselves, at which point we'll
>> cut a first beta in the next 2-4 weeks.  As a precursor to that,
>> monthly snapshots will likely get built and released in the next
>> couple of days.  Hopefully testing and feedback from that will allow
>> us to nail down a more specific schedule for the release itself.
>>
>> At this point, the imperative for developers is to wrap up any
>> remaining outstanding features and work on testing and bug fixing.
>> Likewise users :-). We often find that even early adoption sites only
>> really start testing during the RC cycle, and that's far too late to
>> make larger changes that may be required to address some sorts of
>> stability issues.  Getting people doing testing the whole way through
>> the cycle makes a big difference in the effectiveness of the test
>> cycle.
>>     
>
>
> I'd like to do some testing, but I'm a little bit afraid of the upgrade
> procedure 6.2-stable to -current. Is it possible to do a simple upgrade
> if I follow the guidelines in UPGRADE or are there any hidden caveats?
> (like "you've to recompile all installed ports", etc. :-))
>
> Bye
> Marc
>
>   
I'm running -CURRENT now and will happily upgrade once there's a beta/rc 
out.

Hugo