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- From: osynw@warp.mhd.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
- Subject: Unofficial User Supported Bug List being created
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.174221.20280@coe.montana.edu>
- Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Try to get some.
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:42:21 GMT
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-
- Since the Jolitz's and Chris are very busy people, I figured it would be
- nice for them and for us to have a bug list. Since I have some free time
- until school starts (1 month), I am volunteering to try and make an
- organized bug list for 386BSD 0.1.
-
- I will attempt to keep this list current with recent official and unofficial
- patches, so when the first patch to 0.1 is released, I will try to update
- my list (assuming I have it out by the time the patch is released).
-
- The advantages to us doing it are:
- ----------------------------------
- 1) It takes some work of the developers.
- When I get the list organized, I can send it off to the
- maintainers of 386BSD, and as people send in more bugs I can try and
- organize them in a (hopefully) coherent manner.
-
- 2) It may help co-ordination of the user group's efforts. There are
- alot of talented people who read news, and it would be nice to know
- who is working on what so we don't get redundancy.
-
- 3) This kinda of thing may help new users. I hope to integrate Terry
- Lambert's FAQ into this list, and separate bugs into kernel bugs,
- installation bugs, user program bugs, and other misc. bugs.
-
- 4) It's just plain nice to know sometimes that what you are seeing is
- a bug, and not you going crazy expecting something else. ;-)
-
-
- What I propose is people fill out a simple bug report form, which is hopefully
- easier to fill out than fixing the bugs. If you would send me the
- bug report, with a mail heading of 386BSD BUGS, I can organize these
- reports and then re-post them to the network and/or upload them to the
- ftp sites.
-
- Here is my second shot at a BUG REPORT form.
-
- ----------------------------BUG REPORT------------------------
- Name:
- Email address:
- Date:
-
- Hardware info:
- [Whatever you think is necessary for creating the problem
- CPU, BIOS, Chipset, Memory, cards, disk, ....]
-
- Problem description:
- [As much info as you can give, how to re-produce, etc..]
-
- Problem suspicions:
- [What/where you think the problem is if you don't have a fix]
-
- Solution:
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
-
- So if you know of bugs in 386BSD 0.1, please send me email with
- the subject line of: 386BSD BUGS, and I will try and get this thing together
- sometime this week.
-
- At first, if your bug-list is in a different format, and you think I
- will understand it, send it to me in whatever form you can, but
- as time goes by, I would like to auto-mate this a little so as
- you find new bugs, try and use the form. (which will problaby
- change as time goes on)
-
- Thanks a lot Bill and Lynne et al. for giving us 386BSD,
-
-
- Nate
-
- (if you have problems emailing this account, try the one in my .sig)
- --
- osynw@terra.oscs.montana.edu | A hacker w/out a home. Anyone interested
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