I would like to thank Jordan Hubbard for giving me the
opportunity to take on some of the release engineering
responsibilities for FreeBSD 4.4 and also for all of his work
throughout the years making FreeBSD what it is today. Of course
the release would not have been possible without all of the
release-related work done by Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org>
, Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org>
, Bruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>
, Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>
,
David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
and the rest of the FreeBSD development
community. I would also like to thank Rodney Grimes <rgrimes@FreeBSD.org>
, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
, and others
who worked on the release engineering tools in the very early days
of FreeBSD. This article was influenced by release engineering
documents from the CSRG
[8]
,
the NetBSD Project ,
[9]
, and John
Baldwin's proposed release engineering process notes.
[10]
[8] Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and Keith Bostic: The Release Engineering of 4.3BSD
[9] NetBSD Developer Documentation: Release Engineering http://www.NetBSD.org/developers/releng/index.html
[10] John Baldwin's FreeBSD Release Engineering Proposal http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/docs/releng.txt
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