Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:40:31 -0600 From: "Smokey DeWeed" <smokeyser@msp-26-175-126.mn.rr.com> To: <Current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: more -current testers Message-ID: <001601c1b985$b27a6840$0a00a8c0@ACHIWERE> In-Reply-To: <20020219193211.GA1785@raggedclown.net>
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I run FreeBSD both at home and at work and I'd be happy to provide feedback on any bugs I come across. Your article on debugging and submitting a "proper" bug report would be helpful in making sure that any info I submit is useful. And I'm sure that there's a thousand others reading this and thinking the same thing. Keep up the good work. :) On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:50:11PM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote: > I understand that we're getting to that stage where we need more > -current testers. > > We all agree that the optimal thing would be to have hordes of very > sophisticated users who can debug problems on their own and submit > patches to fix all their issues. I would guess that we all also agree > that that's not going to happen. > > 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. > > 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. > > The last time I checked, I get 12-15 thousand readers for each > article. One half of one percent uptake would (hopefully) be quite a > few bug reports. > > My question to the community is: is it too early to do this? If I > start now, the articles would probably appear April-May. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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