Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:04:12 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk> Cc: mdf@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Schedule for releases Message-ID: <20101229000412.000049ee@unknown> In-Reply-To: <DB4D8AC7-25D6-4901-BBF9-77BEB956840B@cederstrand.dk> References: <AANLkTi=_mHDz3LZ1SAuCsz6kmvqCdZBx3Q5ZTyQQO1%2BP@mail.gmail.com> <201012211500.16131.jhb@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1012212215320.36028@fledge.watson.org> <DB4D8AC7-25D6-4901-BBF9-77BEB956840B@cederstrand.dk>
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On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:21:56 +0100 Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk> wrote: > Den 21/12/2010 kl. 23.28 skrev Robert Watson: > > > > > Looking at 7.x, I'm struck by how much it has slowed down. There's > > a significant user community, but not a significant developer > > community. > > Which pretty much sums up a dilemma in the development of FreeBSD, I > think. Developers want users to try out their new shiny stuff, but > users don't want to spend time upgrading. > > I think one of many things that would be great to do is to improve > the usability and coverage of the regression tests. This would take > at least some of the burden off developers who want to MFC their > work. We already have the tinderboxes, Coverity and Clang Static > Analyzer, but apart from pho's stress tests we don't have any > automated runtime testing (as far as I know). Your benchmark suite can not be used for something like this? With the regression tests as the benchmarks? BTW: real benchmarks are also some kind of regression tests, Bye, Alexander.
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