Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:04:45 -0500 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Packages for Current ( 10.0 ) Message-ID: <CAOgwaMvbnbSsWjxcowMx4ivwzASTq-wnDmsTOZb5teohbu4eCQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120217042552.GC24427@lonesome.com> References: <CAOgwaMu559_-uhARiyngi=Wcgg7ioBKh6Zbys8x41gcrnTK4uA@mail.gmail.com> <20120217042552.GC24427@lonesome.com>
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On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote: > The portmgr team has not yet started regular package builds for -current. > We are working on re-allocating some resources to be able to do so. > > Note, however, that with -current being an early branch of a new major > version, that the src that we are building against is changing rapidly. > My personal recommendation would be that if you want prebuilt packages, > you stay with -stable branches, unless you are particularly interested > in helping to test the state of -current. > > mcl > I would be very happy I can contribute anything to development of FreeBSD . As I am always writing about importance of testing , in the same manner , I wish to test new developments to help to isolate problems , if I can . If there appears an agenda of testing problems and explicit instructions how to apply tests , me and other persons may apply them and report the results . In a message ( I do not remember its author's name ) it is said that there is no a farm of FreeBSD testing machines . If a web page is designed for testing with the goal and structure as described above it may be very useful and it may off load some tasks directly carried by the developers . Such a help will be very useful because the developers will be able to allocate more time to improve missing features . Please see my message for details : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-performance/2012-January/004536.html I have time and usable computer(s) for testing . I do not know FreeBSD internals very well . I can apply test(s) and report the results . I do not know very well scripting facilities of FreeBSD to design and implement such a testing web site pages and reporting by such scripts , but I can read and apply their instructions . I think that there will be many other volunteers to do such helps . If we can generate such a testing ecological system , I think , FreeBSD development will benefit from it very much . There is some need to include relevant facilities into FreeBSD supplied services , such as possibility of defining distinct monitors for stdin , stdout , stderr , besides serial consoles in loader.conf ; an easy facility to divert outputs of stdout and stderr into files to transmit them to testing site . Generation of XML files to obtain testing results directly processability by scripts , and other required modifications for testing applied promptly . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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