From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 20 0:27:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ix.rain.fr (ix.rain.fr [194.51.3.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93D9237B400 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 00:27:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from rain.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ix.rain.fr (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1K8Qiu63508 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 09:26:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from tfischer@rain.fr) Message-ID: <3C735DC4.10805@rain.fr> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 09:26:44 +0100 From: Tom Fischer Organization: Equant User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020218 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more -current testers References: <20020219125011.A15871@blackhelicopters.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, These proposed articles can only help. I've been following this list for a few years, I'm ready to contribute in my own small way :-) tom tfischer@rain.fr 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. > > Thanks, > Michael > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message