Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 15:03:21 -0500 From: Larry Sica <lsica29@earthlink.net> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Regression / Testing (was: dillon@'s commit bit..) Message-ID: <E07FD3E8-3944-11D7-A90E-000393A335A2@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <3E414BE7.7060008@centtech.com>
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On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 12:37 PM, Eric Anderson wrote: > Narvi wrote: >> On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> This is a valid viewpoint. I've been wondering for some time how we >>> could do this. You can contribute other things than code to the >>> source tree, of course, such as documentation. But I don't see a >>> good >>> way to include systems administrators (except in exactly that >>> function >>> within the project, and opportunities there are limited). We've also >>> had problems with advocacy: some advocates are somewhat extreme, and >>> we're concerned they're doing the project more harm than good. If >>> you >>> can come up with some good suggestions, we'd like to see them (at the >>> risk of Yet Another Bike Shed). >>> >> It might be possible to make use of them (at least ones who are >> sufficently >> good at scripting and making systems fall over) to advance the >> regresion >> and stress test parts, both in creation and having it be regularily >> run. >> As they derive direct benefits from it they also have a reason/excuse >> to >> spend some time and resources on it > > I started this kind of project a while back, and was looking for > volunteers. Basically, I have the hardware, power, etc, I just need > people to volunteer their time to help me run regression testing on > RELEASEs, STABLE, CURRENT, etc. > What exactly were you looking for, i have hardware that i am no longer using that i can donate to the task possibly. As well as some time. --Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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