Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:30:01 -0600 From: "Mark Johnston" <mjohnston@skyweb.ca> To: "'Cliff Sarginson'" <cls@raggedclown.net> Cc: <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Current testing strategy - a request for information Message-ID: <002601c2923c$06525fb0$490fa8c0@MJOHNSTON> In-Reply-To: <20021122104608.GA13446@raggedclown.net>
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Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net> wrote: > Hello, > I intend to put a copy of CURRENT on my system, not as a > replacement for > -stable, but so I can run my typical things against it overnight and > see if I can help uncover any problems. > > What I would like is a short list of what to do to make this useful. > This does not need to be a HOWTO, I can find that out I think from > existing sources, but a WHATTO, so that I don't miss anything > that would > make such an activity useless. So just a bullet point list will do. > > Maybe I should ask this is in current, but I expect some of > you out there > are doing this anyway. > > -- > Regards > Cliff Sarginson > The Netherlands A good place to start is the release documentation for the 5.0-DP2 release. In particular, I'm sure testing would be appreciated on the "new since DP1" features mentioned at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/DP2/announce.html. Other major new parts to -CURRENT that will want much testing are at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/DP2/early-adopter.html - check the New Features section. For a more exhaustive list of new features and changes in -CURRENT, check http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/DP2/relnotes-i386.html. If you plan to install -CURRENT you'll be expected to follow the -current list, where you'll no doubt see more requests for testing new commits. For updated versions of the documents above, you can keep an eye on Bruce A. Mah's release notes snapshots (RELNOTESng) at http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/. Of course, to make the testing most useful for yourself, load it heavily with the same kind of load you normally run, or better yet, the kind of load you could be running a few years down the road. You can probably get better feedback on -current with your request, but this may give you a start. Thanks for testing -CURRENT! -Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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