Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 18:25:35 -0700 (MST) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'Code Freeze' Message-ID: <199803200125.SAA29636@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <199803192215.OAA26828@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Mar 19, 98 02:14:57 pm
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Mike Smith opined:
> Let me just make one salient observation about this whole thread.
>
> The stability, or otherwise, of the CD releases is *entirely* in the
> hands of the user community.
>
> Previous releases have experimented with protracted BETA and GAMMA
> stages. Others have adopted the "everything's quiet, lets do it Right
> Now" attitude.
>
> In every single case, people have only ever complained about problems
> _after_ the release is cast in stone. The temptation is very strong to
> simply ignore this sort of complaint - the gate is closed, the horse
> long gone.
The disk slice changes have actually helped the process in this
release, I think. I remember the 2.1.5 release going through ALPHA and
BETA, when *nobody* would bother to sup and test, so the 2.1.5 release
went out buggy.
This was especially amusing given the large number of people who later
confessed they had larges numbers of machines, dedicated test
machines, and all sorts of other resources and had not bothered to test
anything before upgrading, then hollered because they were bitten.
2.1.6 and 2.1.7 got tested much more, and fared better because of it.
If you're running production *anything* on FreeBSD 2.2.x, you should be
reading -stable, and you should be beta testing your own configuration
to make sure it works.
But I still think an extended GAMMA or "early availability" phase prior
to burning the CD-ROMS is a good idea. It didn't help much with 2.1.5,
but that was (I hope) an aberration.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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