From owner-freebsd-qa Wed Dec 22 22: 6:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC98314FDD; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 22:06:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA11238; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 22:06:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Jason Young Cc: "'Colin'" , freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG, "'jkh@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: After 3.4 finally goes out the door In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Dec 1999 19:50:12 CST." Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 22:06:04 -0800 Message-ID: <11234.945929164@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I think it's a good idea to keep the list around, but I don't think that the > QA volunteers were really used to their full potential. I agree, nor can I fault any of your reasoning as to why. > Yeah, it's a free software project and nobody's paid, and what gets out the > door is still a fine piece of work (and major kudos to jkh and the rest of > the guys on that). But, I don't think much meaningful testing of the real > release was accomplished due to all the really really late changes. The last > minute "oh I really need such and such MFC'd" trips are killers (sysinstall, > moused, you won't have to rack your brain too hard for examples). All I can say is that mistakes were made and learned from, in some cases for the 2nd or 3rd time (*urk*), and 3.5 will come out with a very very different and somewhat elongated release schedule as a result. Shall we say 30 days? - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message