Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:24:36 -0500 From: Branson Matheson <Branson.Matheson@FergInc.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: [ezk@cs.columbia.edu: Re: amd and release] Message-ID: <19980127162436.56765@toth.FergInc.com>
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FYI.. I have been using this version hapilly in a production
environment on my HP's and it is very stable.. I will be taking his
suggestion to heart and running it on my fbsd production boxes. They
should abuse it quite heavily.. I will be making a port/package when
I feel that it is strong enough..
The reason I am chasing this down is that I encountered one of the
fixed bugs in our current version today on one of our boxes. Has
anyone else been checking into this.. is there any interest? I
would like to incorperate it into the source tree at some point....
presumeably when it has been stability checked.
-----Forwarded message from Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.columbia.edu>-----
From: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Branson.Matheson@FergInc.com
Cc: ezk@shekel.mcl.cs.columbia.edu
Subject: Re: amd and release
In message <19980127152703.42074@toth.FergInc.com>, Branson Matheson writes:
>> I am a supporter of FreeBSD... and would like to get a "release"
>> version of the am-utils in the near future incorperated into our
>> tree. Is there any word on when yall will be putting togeher a
>> "release" version of the software?
>>
>> I just built the latest 6.0a15 and it built cleanly and is working
>> well. Let me know if I can be of assistance in getting yall tested
>> so that we can get a release version. Thanks!
>
>FreeBSD (the OS) is stable enough that I've had no problems running am-utils
>for a long time on both 2.2.1 and 3.0. IMHO you can feel free to
>incorporate am-utils as a package/source into freebsd. The Netbsd and
>debian linux groups already do.
>
>I'm a very careful "releaser". What I call alpha-15 most people consider
>advanced beta... I've been told this several times on amd-dev and in
>private. My suggestion would be for you to run the latest am-utils on your
>freebsd machines, and pound on it with everything you've got. If you and
>the rest of the freebsd maintainers feel it's stable enough, go for it. If
>you find bugs, I'd be happy to look at them (or incorporate bug fixes).
>
>I was planning to get a beta-1 release this month. Alas, new features were
>just ebing discussed in the last few days, that may change exposed
>interfaces (like the amd map syntax), so I'd feel more comfortable if it's
>still called "alpha"; that way I can still make changes that are necessary.
>Once I go to beta, it'd be harder to make user-visible changes. However,
>I've tried very very hard not to change amd' map syntax in any significant
>way that would break old functionality, only to add to it.
>
>Erez.
- branson
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