Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:21:56 +0100 From: Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: mdf@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Schedule for releases Message-ID: <DB4D8AC7-25D6-4901-BBF9-77BEB956840B@cederstrand.dk> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1012212215320.36028@fledge.watson.org> References: <AANLkTi=_mHDz3LZ1SAuCsz6kmvqCdZBx3Q5ZTyQQO1%2BP@mail.gmail.com> <201012211500.16131.jhb@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1012212215320.36028@fledge.watson.org>
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--Apple-Mail-955--984780088 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Den 21/12/2010 kl. 23.28 skrev Robert Watson: >=20 > Looking at 7.x, I'm struck by how much it has slowed down. There's a = significant user community, but not a significant developer community.=20= Which pretty much sums up a dilemma in the development of FreeBSD, I = think. Developers want users to try out their new shiny stuff, but users = don't want to spend time upgrading. I think one of many things that would be great to do is to improve the = usability and coverage of the regression tests. This would take at least = some of the burden off developers who want to MFC their work. We already = have the tinderboxes, Coverity and Clang Static Analyzer, but apart from = pho's stress tests we don't have any automated runtime testing (as far = as I know). Erik= --Apple-Mail-955--984780088--
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