Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 05:55:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, david@aps-services.com, paul@originative.co.uk, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers files) Message-ID: <199905011055.FAA14055@home.dragondata.com> In-Reply-To: <199904302213.PAA01178@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Apr 30, 1999 3:13:11 pm"
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> > I honestly don't know when to bring up things like that, now. :) > > For 3.2, _right_now_. What you're doing with Matt is the first stage; > the next involves bringing it back to the 3.2-beta tree and testing it > there. > > Please understand that if "you" (the community) aren't working on this, > nobody else is. We don't have enough people manning the trenches > because they're all sitting back in the chateau waiting for the > afternoon dispatches. This doesn't work. 8) > Can I propose something? I realize gnats does most of this, but... Suppose there's some central list where anyone who is having unresolved problems can post their e-mail address, section of code, and a brief explaination of the symptoms. Other people acn go to this list and tack on their e-mail address to other people's compalaints saying "I'm seeing this too.". Before each release, all of these people are e-mailed saying "Can you test to see if your problem still exists?" This will also be a bonus for developers to find people who are experiencing specific problems, to see if their fixes work. I know this is a lot like gnats, however: I don't think gnats wants a list of 'me too's in it. It's not easy to mail groups of people from gnats. There's no reason for anyone to add their e-mail address to a PR at the moment. I'm not sure if this'll make things more confusing or not, but... It'll stop people with legitimate problems from getting lost in the shuffle, and keeps PR's to more timely issues. Anyone have any comments? Really, i'm just picturing a list of people with specific problems... maybe gnats can be tuned a bit for this... Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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