Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 21:00:16 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more -current testers - are they WANTED yet? Message-ID: <p05101413b89b549a8dbb@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20020219130836.B16105@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20020219125011.A15871@blackhelicopters.org> <20020219190142.A66679@energyhq.homeip.net> <20020219130836.B16105@blackhelicopters.org>
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At 1:08 PM -0500 2/19/02, Michael Lucas wrote: >In an ideal world, you're correct. > >The real question here should have been: do those people who >are actively committing rapidly to the tree want to see this >happen? They are the people who will realistically have to >deal with the PRs. This is the main question of course, and I can't say that I've seen any of the really active developers comment on it. I do think it is important to get more people on -current, so I'm trying to do more with -current myself. So, for instance, I've already come across two small errors in -current which should certainly be fixed before 5.0 "goes -stable". However, looking at the bigger issues being discussed in -current right now, I expect it would be annoying if I bugged anyone about little cosmetic issues. I think if Michael writes up anything, it will certainly encourage more people to use current, including people who might very well start commenting on the little nit-picking items. Do the developers of current want that yet, or will they find it irritating to have people pointing out minor issues when they (the developers) are still trying to sort out some of the more major issues? Current is fine for me (at the moment at least, and if we ignore the topic of vmware...), and I do hope to write a few patches to fix the cosmetic things I do come across. But are the developers ready for maybe a hundred more people playing around with current, and reporting on all kinds of things? I assume we'd still like 5.0 to "go -stable" in about 8-10 months, so at which point to we start encouraging more people to jump into it? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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