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======================================================================================================================== Hello Ubuntu developers, Our sixth and final alpha testing milestone for Karmic, Karmic Alpha 6, is scheduled for this coming Thursday, September 17. Karmic Alpha 6 will again use a "soft freeze" for main[1]. This means that developers are asked to refrain from uploading packages between Tuesday and Thursday which don't bring us closer to releasing the alpha, so that these days can be used for settling the archive and fixing any remaining showstoppers. The list of bugs targeted for alpha-6 can be found at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+bugs?field.milestone=12714 Per the policy described at < https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RCBugTargetting >, this list is used for tracking bugs that are blockers for the alpha 6 milestone. If you know of other bugs that should be considered blockers, please nominate them for release and set the milestone target for those bugs. If you have questions about whether a bug should be considered a blocker, please contact a member of the release team[2]. And of course, please also consider helping with the bugs already listed there if you have the time. At this point in the release cycle, it's increasingly important to look not just at the bugs that are critical for the current milestone, but also those which are critical for the upcoming Karmic milestones or critical for the release as a whole: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+bugs?field.milestone%3Alist=12715 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+bugs?field.milestone%3Alist=12698 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+bugs Please use your best judgement with regard to the alpha freeze when uploading fixes for these bugs; but if you don't have any bugs milestoned for alpha 6 that need your attention, it's definitely not too early to look ahead to the next milestones. Please also help us to get the archive in a consistent state again for the alpha, as described on < https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/PackageArchive#Consistency >. Finally, if you know of new features in Karmic that you think should be highlighted for Alpha 6, let me or another member of the release team know so that they can be added to the technical overview at < https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicKoala/TechnicalOverview >. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek On behalf of the Ubuntu release team [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-January/000363.html [2] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-release/+members On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 10:52 -0400, Mikel King wrote: > On Oct 8, 2008, at 9:00 PM, Chad Marshall wrote: > > > No Problem, I figured that there are other systems out there with a > > longer uptime. I have this server as a postfix/courier-imap/ > > squirrelmail (60+ accounts and 30-40 forwards) mailserver with > > apache/php/mysql. Also use it as a slave authoritative nameserver > > for over 100 zones (one zone with a 60sec TTL on a high volume > > production website) as well. Plus use it as a primary nameserver for > > our entire office (300+ workstations). I was lazy with it (Upgrading > > or Replacing) and when it hit a year, I decided to hold off doing > > anything with it as I wanted to see how long I could let it go. > > It's a celeron 2.4ghz server with 512m Ram and has been a champ > > server in it's performance and stability. I use CentOS for most of > > my other systems and find that as easy as it is for administration > > and upgrading, it lacks FreeBSD's performance. With the memory leaks > > that CentOS has, I usually have to end up restarting the > > machine(s). With FreeBSD I can just restart the services, and got > > my memory back and reduce the amount of swap being used. > > > > Regardless of the first email I got back (Which was a little rude), > > I will continue to run this server as long as I can and monitor the > > security risks using DenyHosts and other security measures. > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > On Oct 8, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Frank Shute wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:54:47AM -0700, Chad Marshall wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> Would like to share a success story which I'm sure you've had in the > >>> past but one of my servers running FreeBSD will have an uptime of 2 > >>> years tomorrow. I plan on putting on my blog but as it doesn't have > >>> much reach but wanted to share with you since your community has > >>> made > >>> this possible. Please indicate where I could post this to have a bit > >>> more reach or if you'd like to put a link to my blog, I'd be more > >>> than > >>> happy to provide that. > >>> > >>> > >>> Best Regards, > >>> > >> > >> Sorry to rain on your parade: > >> > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2008-October/005719.html > >> > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Frank > >> > >> > > I think this is good news, and thanks for posting it. While it may not > be a record holder, from an advocacy point of view it's nice to see. > It means there one more rock solid server out there. Here, here... _______________________________________________ free ... @freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to " free ... @freebsd.org "