From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 21 11:51:19 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 11:51:17 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from marlborough.cnchost.com (marlborough.concentric.net [207.155.248.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3D0137B400 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:51:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffy (w072.z064003114.lax-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.3.114.72]) by marlborough.cnchost.com id OAA25737; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:51:12 -0500 (EST) [ConcentricHost SMTP Relay 1.10] Errors-To: From: "SteveB" To: Subject: RE: Sitting on hands (no longer Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:53:04 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 In-Reply-To: <200012211753.LAA28708@guild.plethora.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: seebs@plethora.net [mailto:seebs@plethora.net] > Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 9:54 AM > To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Sitting on hands (no longer Re: FreeBSD vs > Linux, Solaris, > and NT) > > >In the open source > >world is there a official QA process or group. Is there a FreeBSD > >test suite that releases go through. QA is unglamorous work, but > >needs to be done. > > I don't know about the "official" process, but I will tell > you that I'd > rather have my life depend on FreeBSD-current than on > Windows NT, despite > the "QA cycle". > > There are many ways to do effective QA. > > -s > It would just make pitching FreeBSD and other open OS's in the enterprise a lot easier if there was an QA process that official releases went through. Also volunteering to QA would be a good training ground to gain familiarity with a OS and a chance to communicate with developers. Steve B. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message