From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 18 18:34:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC4CF37B403 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 18:34:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6J1YhD79876; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 21:34:44 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010718061815.BCEEE38CC@overcee.netplex.com.au> References: <20010718061815.BCEEE38CC@overcee.netplex.com.au> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 21:34:41 -0400 To: Peter Wemm From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Userbase of -current Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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 At 11:18 PM -0700 7/17/01, Peter Wemm wrote: >If I had to guess, I'd put the total [genuine] -current userbase >at between 20 and 50 people. And many of those intentionally lag >by a few weeks to a month or two. At the kernel-confab at usenix, I heard some people talking about how "current wasn't really as bad as people assume it is". I must admit I wonder how much current is actively used. I know I try to build a new up-to-date current every two or three weeks, but I don't do much more on it than test a few changes. I am certainly not "stress-testing" it. Almost all of my real day-to-day work is done on machines which are tracking -stable. I have no profound comment to follow that up with, other than I'm surprised that someone would think there are only 50 people who are "really running" current. I'm going to ask around a bit more. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message