Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:15:04 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@sage.thought.org> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?! Message-ID: <20060913181504.GB90378@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20060913144605.GD70245@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <20060909173813.GA1388@FS.denninger.net> <20060913144605.GD70245@garage.freebsd.pl>
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On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 04:46:05PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 12:38:13PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: > > This is not cool folks. > > I'm really sorry for the breakage. I'm trying to treat -STABLE very > gently, unfortunately this time I made a mistake. > > The change was committed to HEAD at 9 August. The change fixed one bug, > but introduced another, which I didn't expected. The change seemed to be > trivial and I only tested that it fixes the bug I was tracking down, I > haven't looked for regressions. > Well, after this lengthy discussion, I've switched to -RELEASE. -STABLE just ain't... We all realize that none of us would put out a buggy release--not even -CURRENT. But let me ask the next obvious question. How difficult would it be to build a regression test, or suite of tests? Obviously, this could be done over months -> years. (In my last lifetime as a hacker I was in the kernel test group [a BSD-4.4 based release on new architecture]. ) It's a bit hard to believe that with all the genius in this effort, that no regression testing is done. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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