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On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, John Hay wrote:

> You can also track it in a file or with forced commits, with very little if 
> any additional effort.
>
> I thought one of the ideas of -current was that it serves as a testing 
> ground for new code. It seems we currently limit that testing to the box in 
> the corner that you just recompile and reboot and then say "FreeBSD can 
> still compile itself and reboot". You limit the amount of testing you get 
> out of current this way though.

Dunno about you, but I run FreeBSD on my notebook and desktops. :-)  Doing 
anything else, as you point out, will result in inadequate testing.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge