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Date:      Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:32:58 +0000
From:      Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>
To:        Peter Maloney <peter.maloney@brockmann-consult.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD9 and the sheer number of problem reports
Message-ID:  <CAFHbX1JEmnTOCt3sPvbSQ=XTAPi4DvsKNi92hSo9r8cW0QWtGw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F46ADC8.2080408@brockmann-consult.de>
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Peter Maloney
<peter.maloney@brockmann-consult.de> wrote:
> I suggest these concepts should be tested:
>
> Perhaps the testers tested beta1 and beta2, but there were so many
> changes after beta2, that bugs appeared in release that did not exist in
> beta2. Test this by reproducing things reported in release also in beta1
> or 2.
>
> Perhaps the people who know the rule about running .0 releases (such as
> myself) never bothered to test beta1, beta2, or even release .0 (true in
> my case). If so, then this rule is a very bad one. Test this with a poll.
>

At $JOB, we never install a N.0 release either, but only because the
.0 release has such a brief life. The N.1 and N.3 releases have
extended lifetimes, and so we tend to only use those versions.

Cheers

Tom



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