Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 12:19:29 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: speaking of 3.4... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9911251218430.80669-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9911231456380.83466-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net>
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On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, jack wrote: > Today Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > Our release QA is horrible. Look at what Apple does -- they sit on the > > > release candidate for a *month*, with *no changes at all*, before putting > > > > The problem is that Apple also gets people to LOOK at the release > > candidate for that month. > > Apple also has a much better idea of what hardware it will be > installed on, and doesn't have to contend with the multitude of > (non)standards for PC hardware. It would probably take years to > test every possible need of various services (heavy HTTP server, > ftp, etc.) against all the permutations of available hardware. I'm not worried about hardware interactions; I'm worried about plain dumb bugs, like the whole lo0 fiasco with 3.3. That should _NOT_ have happened. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the messagehelp
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