Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 14:45:23 -0500 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: SteveB <admin@bsdfan.cncdsl.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sitting on hands (no longer Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT) Message-ID: <3A4500D3.9E8FE4E3@bellatlantic.net> References: <NEBBIGOKKMNLOMOHMJNPIELGCNAA.admin@bsdfan.cncdsl.com>
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SteveB wrote: > > > -----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. By the way, there is some QA activity going on for Linux-64. Not that it's going too actively but may be worth looking at. The [weak] backbone of Linux-64 testing is SCO/Caldera porting the UnixWare test suites to Linux, so you may want to look at this stuff. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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