From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 10 14:56:32 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8F3216A4C1 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:56:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from rn-out-0102.google.com (rn-out-0910.google.com [64.233.170.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80F1A13C46B for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:56:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: by rn-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id s42so81813rnb.13 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:56:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; bh=rLo05aSfyf1M6nWtvZGBmpJDc7ogdaF5UF5XsVe8aRY=; b=BAcxNj0CegaPRKzcAmzf/Jp/7oMWLs750PIw/krbIXR+xVdmFWamCa6ma6O8XPXuIDTCkeEXsrR9jR7PB/XPQmJJIX0GOIYB73B3h5+2tfCX6YkoJRcZ/4MjfYM26438c75B7fBaqvJcWBKLFzNKxM7TiRjCysse7DF6fPvisaI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=OD1E+PPEwYogf7XbZamZ2BTQb4iL2RsXzQtWdOll//6K0stRTXkCCLiVivwjLR5mnDnlliJnhR99Kng8kRSVsIwcQ5RSNfxNJyIqyclKjgrFXRoQ/vI9FNLIB6ValfaeBJi/OQhjk214oyWJHZjSzKRcGmw6iJmweQ+qMosdYpc= Received: by 10.142.158.17 with SMTP id g17mr997808wfe.234.1199976975930; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:56:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.143.155.13 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:56:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:56:15 +0900 From: "Adrian Chadd" Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com To: "Dominic Fandrey" In-Reply-To: <478556AD.6090400@bsdforen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <478556AD.6090400@bsdforen.de> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 202d6e6e510716a8 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:56:33 -0000 On 10/01/2008, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > The first problem is the unbearable performance many AMD users are suffering > for several chipset and CPU generations. Even minimal I/O load on a hard disk > suffices to lock up whole systems. Posts on the mailinglists current and > stable have often been answered with denial or have simply been ignored. Only > on very rare occasions (if at all) have these problems been taken seriously. This is the thing though. Its working for the developers, its not working for the users, so how do you think it'll get fixed? > The second big problem is the handling of regressions. PRs remain unanswered > or the reporters are told that the regressions they report do not exist. Some > of our members have even suffered the experience that they developed a patch, > but it simply was ignored or turned down for the reason that it was a "Linux > solution". Especially frustrating for those among us who have never looked at > Linux code. Whats the PR number? > The problem seems, in our opinion, to reside with unmaintained code. It seems > that nobody wants to take responsibility for code that has been untouched for > a longer period of time. This is quite understandable, considering that > developers already have projects they're working on and probably consider much > more important, but that does not make it less of a problem. I doubt anyone would mind if any of the community there would be interested in taking over unmaintained code. > What we think might be a solution to the regression problem, would be the > establishing of a Regressions Team, similar to other teams like the Security > Team. The sole purpose of this team would be to take care of regressions that > concern unmaintained code. Why would anyone fix the code if they don't care about it? You've got a group of users who care about regessions in unmaintained code. Figure out how to work with y'all to develop good quality solutions to these problems and integrate them back into the FreeBSD source tree. > To solve the performance problems it appears to us, that a guide to tracking > performance problems or a performance test suite is required. This would > hopefully allow us to write PRs and emails that would be taken more seriously. Again, if someone there wrote up some performance test suites or built a testing environment then I'm sure you'll get some help. The FreeBSD has always been helpful when people willing to develop have stood up and engaged the community in coming to a solution. So, are you guys willing to stand up and contribute something towards solutions to the problems you're seeing? Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - adrian@freebsd.org (Licence related issues? pish. The project I work on has licencing issues. FreeBSD is fine.)