Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:01:42 +0100 From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more -current testers Message-ID: <20020219190142.A66679@energyhq.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20020219125011.A15871@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:50:11PM -0500 References: <20020219125011.A15871@blackhelicopters.org>
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:50:11PM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote:
Hi Michael,
> It seems that the best we can hope for is to educate some of the
> braver users who are ready to take the next step and are willing to
> donate some time to us.
Agreed. I think there are people out there willing to help and become
testers, they're just afraid of -CURRENT 'horror histories'. Running
-current is not a walk in the park, and no one should attempt to do any
serious work with it, but imho it's stable enough for your average mp3
listening, web browsing and kde/gnome/whathaveyou usage.
=20
> I'm considering doing a series of articles on testing FreeBSD-current,
> including: setting up for kernel dumps, what to type at the debugger
> prompt after a crash, filing a decent bug report, what to expect from
> -current, and so on. I would also make it clear when to not bother
> filing a bug report (i.e., "You crashed, but had no WITNESS? Sorry,
> enable WITNESS & try again."). This would be (I suspect) three
> articles, running about a month and a half.
Sounds very good, and yes, most people disable witness so their system
doesn't crawl like a 286 :)
> My question to the community is: is it too early to do this? If I
> start now, the articles would probably appear April-May.
I don't think it's too early, IMHO it's a very good idea, having
specific info on how to use -CURRENT will be beneficial for the
community and atract more users to it.
Cheers,
--=20
Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net
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