FreeBSD Testing Facility

[Fleuriot Damien]

On Feb 21, 2013, at 2:23 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 5:14 AM, Daniel Kalchev <daniel at digsys.bg> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 21.02.13 15:04, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear All ,
>>> 
>>> During development of FreeBSD , testing is very vital .
>>> 
>>> To my knowledge ( which may not be correct ) , at present ,
>>> Tinderbox is used to only compilation correctness ,
>>> means "Syntax" is tested .
>>> 
>>> I have downloaded
>>> 
>>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/**FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/amd64/**
>>> ISO-IMAGES/10.0/FreeBSD-10.0-**CURRENT-amd64-20130216-**
>>> r246877-release.iso<ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/10.0/FreeBSD-10.0-CURRENT-amd64-20130216-r246877-release.iso>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> and tried to install it on an Intel DG965WH main board .
>>> 
>>> During the first booting , it generated a panic message and entered into
>>> debug mode .
>>> 
>>> For me it has crashed , because I do not know what to do in debug mode .
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On this main board , it is possible to completely install and successfully
>>> run
>>> 
>>> Windows 7 ,
>>> Fedora 15 , 17 , 18 ,
>>> Mageia
>>> OpenSuSE
>>> 
>> 
>> I stopped right here. None of the software you compare FreeBSD-current to
>> is an development build. On the other hand, you downloaded an cutting-edge
>> development build of FreeBSD (not released software) and expected it to be
>> stable. It is not. This is why it is not released. It might not always
>> break, but it might also damage your data and (possibly) hardware too.
>> Unless you agree to accept these risks, you should not play with
>> development versions of software.
>> 
>> Having said that, the DG965WH is quite old hardware and any stable version
>> of FreeBSD should work just fine there. You are unlikely to see any benefit
>> of the unreleased versions that are still in development, such as
>> supporting "very new" hardware etc.
>> 
>> Sorry if any of this sounds too hard, but it is reflecting reality. This
>> mailing list, freebsd-current exists to facilitate discussion between
>> those, who know they are running highly unstable, still in development
>> version of FreeBSD that needs lots of work to become more stable.
>> 
>> Daniel
>> 
> 
> 
> I will not support your views . My main idea is to describe how we can help
> to improve FreeBSD testing .
> 
> The problem is " A snapshot intended for testing , is NOT able to boot." .
> 
> If you ask , do I know what I am doing : My answer is I am working in
> computing since 1970 .
> 


And in all that time you've never heard of nightly builds being broken ?