From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 5 12: 3:29 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 0988037B401; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:03:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1294943FAF; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:03:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lsica29@earthlink.net) Received: from [67.98.154.9] (helo=earthlink.net) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18gVlP-00078o-00; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 12:03:19 -0800 Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 15:03:21 -0500 Subject: Re: FreeBSD Regression / Testing (was: dillon@'s commit bit..) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: Narvi , "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG To: Eric Anderson From: Larry Sica In-Reply-To: <3E414BE7.7060008@centtech.com> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) 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 On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 12:37 PM, Eric Anderson wrote: > 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. > What exactly were you looking for, i have hardware that i am no longer using that i can donate to the task possibly. As well as some time. --Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message