Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:40:20 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim <darren.pilgrim@bitfreak.org> To: karl@denninger.net Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?! Message-ID: <45070D24.8000709@bitfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <20060912141547.GA11713@FS.denninger.net> References: <20060909173813.GA1388@FS.denninger.net> <45065C67.6040503@cs.tu-berlin.de> <20060912141547.GA11713@FS.denninger.net>
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Karl Denninger wrote: > I don't think its too much to ask that before something is MFC'd back to > -STABLE from -CURRENT that it <at least> be tested for the most common > functionality (that is, does it work at all?) In this case all that someone > had to do was boot the system and then detach and reattach a mirror component - > the most basic of functionality - to detect that the patch was bad. > > That obviously wasn't done in this instance. > > I understand that finding corner cases and expecting exhaustive testing > is unreasonable from a free project - even in a -RELEASE we don't get that. > > But this wasn't a corner case - it was a situation where absolutely zero > testing was performed before the MFC was sent back to the source tree. So when can the FreeBSD Foundation expect your donation of computers for the purpose of GEOM testing? -- Darren Pilgrim
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