From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 23 11:45:31 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 23 11:45:29 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net [209.3.218.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19A7737B400 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 11:45:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from bellatlantic.net (client-151-198-117-201.nnj.dialup.bellatlantic.net [151.198.117.201]) by smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA26210; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 14:45:25 -0500 (EST) Sender: root@smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net Message-ID: <3A4500D3.9E8FE4E3@bellatlantic.net> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 14:45:23 -0500 From: Sergey Babkin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-19990626-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: SteveB Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sitting on hands (no longer Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG SteveB wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: seebs@plethora.net [mailto:seebs@plethora.net] > > Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 9:54 AM > > To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: Sitting on hands (no longer Re: FreeBSD vs > > Linux, Solaris, > > and NT) > > > > >In the open source > > >world is there a official QA process or group. Is there a FreeBSD > > >test suite that releases go through. QA is unglamorous work, but > > >needs to be done. > > > > I don't know about the "official" process, but I will tell > > you that I'd > > rather have my life depend on FreeBSD-current than on > > Windows NT, despite > > the "QA cycle". > > > > There are many ways to do effective QA. > > > > -s > > > It would just make pitching FreeBSD and other open OS's in the > enterprise a lot easier if there was an QA process that official > releases went through. Also volunteering to QA would be a good > training ground to gain familiarity with a OS and a chance to > communicate with developers. By the way, there is some QA activity going on for Linux-64. Not that it's going too actively but may be worth looking at. The [weak] backbone of Linux-64 testing is SCO/Caldera porting the UnixWare test suites to Linux, so you may want to look at this stuff. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message