From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 8 23:49:03 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id XAA02212 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Feb 1995 23:49:03 -0800 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.atinc.com [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA02206; Wed, 8 Feb 1995 23:49:01 -0800 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id VAA12533; Wed, 8 Feb 1995 21:47:42 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 21:47:41 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Reply-To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: Using seagate driver with Future Domain 950: :-( To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Wilko Bulte , FreeBSD hackers list , vak@cronyx.msk.su In-Reply-To: <17160.792289149@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 8 Feb 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > get an UPDATE to this driver and you think "Great, still don't have > this hardware to test with but the author says it's better, > so... *sigh*" Except maybe this time things break, and yet you still > don't know who out there actually HAS one of these things, and so it's > untested and doesn't get found out until 2 days before your release is > due to ship! :-) > > Clearly, things can't work this way (or fail to) forever. Help! > FreeBSD needs an *accountant*! ;-) so what's an accountant. sounds like a test engineer is required...nothing gets into the distribution tree till after testing by a couple of people. including some serious hammering on the code. not like solaris 2.4 in which you can install to the cdrom distribution media......and away we go....till the install realizes that i cant write to a cdrom and goes belly up. Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346