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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: RELENG? Date: 7 Jun 1997 14:43:58 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 31 Message-ID: <5nbs3e$2h6@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5n1ft6$mk3$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> <5n3con$dpq@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42572 brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers) wrote: > > I am ashamed to reveal my ignorance, but what does RELENG > > stand for? > > I would suspect "Release Engine". Actually `release engineer'. It's the branch and release tag reserved for use by the release engineer(s). (Release tags end up in _RELEASE, branch tags only end in the respective number.) Now for those who ask ``What's a release engineer, anyway?'': That's the people behind the scene working hard doing the preparation for each new release. This usually involves a fair amount of stupid work, like keeping a machine busy with `make release' every day or every second, reviewing lotsa diffs between the main trunk and the release branch to see whether they are appropriate (and not too risky), testing every possible installation method and constellation (well, almost every :), and fixing 5-to-12 bugs mainly in the installation tools. This usually involves Jordan (being paid for this), for FreeBSD 2.2 Poul-Henning Kamp was also involved in the beginning, and i took over his part later when he got too busy with paywork. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)