From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 24 23:27:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from anon.lcs.mit.edu (anon.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1052714E47 for ; Mon, 24 May 1999 23:27:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from serge69@nym.alias.net) Date: 25 May 1999 06:27:17 -0000 Message-ID: <19990525062717.30031.qmail@nym.alias.net> From: Sergey Subject: Re: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? To: "Mike Smith" Cc: References: <199905250541.WAA00380@dingo.cdrom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > You write to tell us now that a release that was produced some four > months ago is (was?) unstable? > > Have you noticed that we've done another release since then? > As far as I know, there are same problems in new releases. I've talked with some person who experince same instability in 3.2-R. > Have you stopped to consider that it isn't even slightly helpful to > report problems with FreeBSD _after_ a release? We depend on our users > to tell us about problems on the -stable branch before it's rolled into > a release, not afterwards. If you're not willing to take part in this > process, your complaints are likely to be ignored at the very least. If I report problem, Is not time to ask me about details at least? If this PR known, THEN ignore me - NOT BEFORE. If you close eyes on problems in past releases - you'll leave it in future too!!! > > In your case, I can't work out what it is that you want to achieve > here; the problems with 3.1 are well known and have mostly been Yours ATTENTION is my target ;) I WANT (and CAN) help, but no one interested in !!! > addressed in 3.2. There are ongoing issues that are being worked on, > with help from various people (yourself notably not included). > If problem is random in nature you can't find it NEW releases, just because it is needed time to happened. I should wait for 3 days at least to check is this fixed!!! I've found a lot of problems in PR and archives. They are old dated and looking as dead for monthes - no audit trail, no discussion. > If you want to see future releases perform better than the one you're > whining about now, I suggest you get busy contributing something more > useful than your current load of hot air. > I'm ready, I want, but I don't understand how!!! I can claim about problem, I can reproduce it, I can give you more info.... Even more I can start tracing if you give me hints! *** But how can I do something if YOU just ignore issue ??? *** With best regards, Sergey. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message