Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 09:39:58 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org, announce@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A 3.0-current SNAP building machine has been found! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970511093647.292L-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <18077.863238129@time.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, 9 May 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > ACC TelEnterprises & James FitzGibbon have stepped forward and > created, how shall I put it, a very *attractively* configured and > connected machine for this purpose, complete with administrative > support. > > Therefore, once I have it set up to start building SNAPs, I'll start > up the cron job and have David G. point "current.freebsd.org" at this > machine so that it people can ftp the latest 3.0-SNAPs from it in the > same way they currently have releng22.freebsd.org for the RELENG_2_2 > (2.2-stable) branch. > > Of course, this raises an interesting question: Now that it's truly > possible to get daily releases from the 3.0 & 2.2 bits (and, if > someone else is still up to volunteer a box, I guess we could also > create a releng210.freebsd.org for the 2.1-stable branch?) - what > differentiates a "good" one from a bad one? Which ones should we copy > over to ftp.freebsd.org, periodically? > > I suppose that Terry will now suggest some sort of voting system and I > can't even say that it's such a bad idea (just so long as I don't have > to write the vote collection and tabulation software :-). At Micro$oft, we used the daily build system for everything. If you weren't working on it though, you didn't just install a random build of Win95. There were usually a few 'known good builds' which were worth installing. Not sure how you can figure out automatically what a 'good build' is though. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891
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