Scott Long

果然不出所料，Scott Long同学commit了Daniel Braniss的iSCSI发起端（客户端）实现。这样，FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE将成为第一个包含iSCSI客户端实现的版本（之前FreeBSD通过net/iscsi-target支持target模式）。

昨天Scott Long老大发了一封信说，从过去一个月内的反馈来看，6.0-RELEASE是FreeBSD近几年最为成功的发行版本，同时，也是FreeBSD历史上最为成功的.0发行版本。

Scott Long has warned that RELENG_6 would be branched soon. At this point, most part of FreeBSD-CURRENT is considered to be “stable” while some of the drivers and ULE scheduler is still under revamp. Once all bugs found gets fixed we will release 6.0.

HEAD will be soft frozen until 6.0-RELEASE. I will begin to integrate some of minor changes there.

Today Scott Long has named FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, this is a significant step toward final 5.3-RELEASE.

Please note that before the team has a PGP signed 5.3-RELEASE announcement, don’t download the ISOs even they have appeared on any site. We may still do changes after the naming.

Scott Long have committed this which will:

Jean-Sébastien Pédron [jspedron club-internet.fr] has announced that he has ported ReiserFS 3.6 (from kernel 2.6.7) to FreeBSD (with only Read-Only support this time).

Scott Long suggests to import these to base because 6-CURRENT will have a focus on the file system. I suggested that we have a directory under somewhere in the src/ tree to keep these Linux bits so we can backport their fixes more easily and it should be better for us to rip these things out when we have re-written something from scratch.

Scott Long has branched RELENG_5_3 (also RELENG_5_3_BP tag) and 5.3-RC1 is coming REALLY SOON.

Scott Long, the Release Engineering Team Lead, has announced the “Final MFC Call” which means we must MFC all changes in the next 24 hours. A Release Candidate would be tagged soon (in 1 day) by creating RELENG_5_3 branch.

Accroding to the historical release engineering practice, we will release at least two release candadites. However, the release engineering team thought that we have seven (7) beta releases and we may reduce the need of RC’s to only one.

http://election.uk.freebsd.org/candidates.html indicates all candidates. Finally, Scott Long (RE leader for 5.x series) became a core member.

Scott Long has named 4.10-RELEASE yesterday and now the source tree has been tagged. The long awaited release has included the lastest FreeBSD -STABLE improvements, security updates, stablity improvements, and so on.