Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:51:52 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> Cc: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: News + call for testers regarding KSE + future inclusion of SMPng... Message-ID: <3B8BCC28.5AC9A68@elischer.org> References: <20010827134902.A80313@rand.tgd.net> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0108281030330.8493-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu> <20010828084512.D83939@rand.tgd.net>
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Sean Chittenden wrote:
>
> > > Seriously, is there any reason to hold to a time line at the
> > > expense of some very important and very fundamental enhancements to
> > > FreeBSD? I suppose that's something for -core to talk about/discuss,
> > > but I bet that if a poll was put on the homepage of FreeBSD.org (hint
> > > hint) asking about this, you'd get an overwhelming response to see
> > > KSE/SMPng in 5.X. With a poll you might even pick up some more testers
> > > given the exposure (hint hint). -sc
> > >
> > If it's testers you want, submit a story on slashdot heh heh, I know a lot
> > of BSDers that are converts from linux that want to test stuff, but only
> > read slashdot for their computer news.
>
> 1) By Friday, I'm hoping to having -current + KSE patch on my boxes
> (money where mouth == Good Thing(tm)).
>
> 2) Is there any reason to _not_ submit a story on Slashdot, Maximum
> BSD, Daemon News, BSD Today, etc... I couldn't help but think the
> exposure and extra testers that would come of this would be a bad thing.
> Is there any documentation in terms of how some stranger could do this
> (from a vanilla system)? At any rate, post a link to the instructions in
> the story and what more could you ask for?
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it'd be good exposure for
> both Jullian's work (even though KSE's will be largely unused in 5.0)
> and FreeBSD. -sc
remember , that this is not KSE threading, just milestone 2
(run with current logic, with a broken up proc structure)
lots of distance to go yet...
>
> PS The submitted story would make it clear that this is -CURRENT
> (not -STABLE) and would include all of the necessary
> warnings/disclaimers.
>
> --
> Sean Chittenden
>
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