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Den 21/12/2010 kl. 23.28 skrev Robert Watson:

>=20
> Looking at 7.x, I'm struck by how much it has slowed down.  There's a =
significant user community, but not a significant developer community.=20=


Which pretty much sums up a dilemma in the development of FreeBSD, I =
think. Developers want users to try out their new shiny stuff, but users =
don't want to spend time upgrading.

I think one of many things that would be great to do is to improve the =
usability and coverage of the regression tests. This would take at least =
some of the burden off developers who want to MFC their work. We already =
have the tinderboxes, Coverity and Clang Static Analyzer, but apart from =
pho's stress tests we don't have any automated runtime testing (as far =
as I know).

Erik=

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