From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 5 9:38: 4 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BFD937B401; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:38:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8644543F93; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:38:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (electron.centtech.com [204.177.173.173]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h15HbrXd081480; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 11:37:53 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3E414BE7.7060008@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 11:37:43 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Narvi Cc: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Regression / Testing (was: dillon@'s commit bit..) References: <20030205191305.M43637-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Narvi wrote: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > >>This is a valid viewpoint. I've been wondering for some time how we >>could do this. You can contribute other things than code to the >>source tree, of course, such as documentation. But I don't see a good >>way to include systems administrators (except in exactly that function >>within the project, and opportunities there are limited). We've also >>had problems with advocacy: some advocates are somewhat extreme, and >>we're concerned they're doing the project more harm than good. If you >>can come up with some good suggestions, we'd like to see them (at the >>risk of Yet Another Bike Shed). >> > It might be possible to make use of them (at least ones who are sufficently > good at scripting and making systems fall over) to advance the regresion > and stress test parts, both in creation and having it be regularily run. > As they derive direct benefits from it they also have a reason/excuse to > spend some time and resources on it I started this kind of project a while back, and was looking for volunteers. Basically, I have the hardware, power, etc, I just need people to volunteer their time to help me run regression testing on RELEASEs, STABLE, CURRENT, etc. I'm still looking - any takers? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching? ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message