From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 28 9:58: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD83737B406; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:57:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from elischer.org (InterJet.elischer.org [192.168.1.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA79899; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:14:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B8BCC28.5AC9A68@elischer.org> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:51:52 -0700 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Chittenden Cc: Kenneth Wayne Culver , current@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: News + call for testers regarding KSE + future inclusion of SMPng... References: <20010827134902.A80313@rand.tgd.net> <20010828084512.D83939@rand.tgd.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 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 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 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature -- +------------------------------------+ ______ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / hard at work in | / \ julian@elischer.org +------>x USA \ a very strange | ( OZ ) \___ ___ | country ! +- X_.---._/ presently in San Francisco \_/ \\ v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message