Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 11:15:00 -0800 From: Jamie Norwood <mistwolf@mushhaven.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Troy Settle <st@i-plus.net>, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: speaking of 3.4... Message-ID: <19991126111500.A10948@mushhaven.net> In-Reply-To: <13831.943643295@zippy.cdrom.com> References: <FNEMIHIFMKFBMDBKFDPBEEDNCAAA.st@i-plus.net> <13831.943643295@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 11:08:15AM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > A suggestion if I might. > > > > Not everyone has the time to do proper preparation for testing a release > > candidate. But, if provided with a copy of the CD, I'm sure you could find > > enough people to test and report problems. Maybe easier would be designating a CVS branch for ISO image source/binaries, and making a script to convert them to an ISO, so people testing on an ongoing basis could only download the changes and not the full 650MB image every day or three. Is this feasible or likely? Jamie > > The problem with this idea is that even 10 CDs are labor intensive since we > have to do it on a CD burner and this takes time and manual disk-jockying. > There's just no way to replicate < 1000 CDs at a time in a cost-effecitve > fashion. > > That's why I'm working on generating ISO images on a daily basis and > will announce it when I have this working. That way people can just > burn their own one-offs, and I know of enough people with good network > connectivity and access to CDRs that I am sure this will result in > more CDs in people's hands than we could produce here (without going > insane). > > - Jordan > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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