From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 30 15:41:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from echonyc.com (echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 912A214CFA for ; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:41:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from benedict@echonyc.com) Received: from localhost (benedict@localhost) by echonyc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA08954; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 18:41:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 18:41:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Snob Art Genre Reply-To: ben@rosengart.com To: Mike Smith Cc: david@aps-services.com, paul@originative.co.uk, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers files) In-Reply-To: <199904302157.OAA01083@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > To sum it all up is there any difference between the branches? > > Yes. We hope that people like you will help us by participating in the > testing of potential releases _before_ they go out as releases, not > _afterwards_. > > Sitting around doing nothing and then complaining after the fact > doesn't help anyone, least of all yourself. I seem to recall that there was a lot of noise about the instability of 3 before it was released, but that it went out the door because it had been taking too long. Wasn't it Greg Lehey who said that the "beta period" seemed more like "integration testing"? Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message