From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 6 12:38:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3A9537B41D for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 12:38:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g16Kb2j12468; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 21:37:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 21:37:02 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Julian Elischer , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Non 386 testers REALLY NEEDED Message-ID: <20020206213702.A12446@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20020206123218.M59017@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020206123218.M59017@elvis.mu.org>; from bright@mu.org on Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 12:32:18PM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 12:32:18PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Julian Elischer [020206 12:20] wrote: > > > > for the set of patches at: > > http://www.freebsd.org/~julian/adiff > > > > these patches SHOULD NOT EFFECT your system except to do some > > slight re-aranging of stuff in the kernel. > > > > THe aim is to get this committed to 'clarify' the upcoming > > KSE commit in http://www.freebsd.org/~julian/thediff > > > > which includes adiff as a subset. > > > > when adiff is committed thediff will become a lot easier for people to > > read and check. I'd like to get adiff in relatively soon. > > I commend you on your wait for testers, but I find that after a couple > of days of waiting for them to appear and give decent feedback usually > just committing the code will bring out a horde of involentary testers > which actually gets the code stabilized. > > This is current, we're allowed some breakage. Cross your I's and dot > your T's first though. :-) C'mon guys: it is not so long ago (days..) that the Alpha started buildworlding -current again. Alpha builds tend to take much longer (on most people's hardware that is) so a bit of patience would be nice. FWIW: I'm trying to get 2 of my Alphas to go to -current again. W/ -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message