Add a testing guide for 4.7-RELEASE. Ask users to help test the new
changes to PPP, ahc, ahd, ipfilter, sendmail, ata, and bzip2 support in the package tools.
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# $FreeBSD$
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# $FreeBSD: www/en/releases/4.7R/Makefile,v 1.1 2002/08/06 07:45:45 murray Exp $
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.if exists(../Makefile.conf)
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.include "../Makefile.conf"
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.include "../Makefile.inc"
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.endif
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DOCS= schedule.sgml
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DOCS= schedule.sgml qa.sgml
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.include "${WEB_PREFIX}/share/mk/web.site.mk"
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" [
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<!ENTITY base CDATA "../..">
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<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD$">
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<!ENTITY rel '4.7-RELEASE'>
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<!ENTITY title "Testing Guide for &rel;">
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<!ENTITY email "qa">
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<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../../includes.sgml"> %includes;
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]>
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<html>
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&header;
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<h3>Goals</h3>
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<p>As part of our on-going effort to improve the release engineering
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process, we have identified several areas that need significant
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quality assurance testing during the release candidate phase.
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Below, we've listed the changes in &rel; that we feel merit
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the most attention due to their involving substantial changes to the
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system, or having arrived late in the development cycle leading up
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to the release. In general, our goal in the QA process is to
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attempt to check a number of things:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>The system has not regressed with respects to stability, correctness,
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interoperability, or performance of features present in prior
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releases.<br><br></li>
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<li>New features result in the desired improvement in stability,
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correctness, interoperability, or performance.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>To effectively determine this, it's desirable to test the system in
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a diverse set of environments, applying a wide set of workloads,
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forcing the system to operate both within and outside its normal
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specification. Particular focus should often be placed on the
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continuing (or new) capability of the system to perform correctly
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when used in concert with systems from other vendors.</p>
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<h3>Features to explore carefully:</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><p>PPP. A number of significant PPP changes were merged to
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-STABLE before the code freeze. In particular, the following
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changes were made :</p>
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<ul>
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<li>IPv6 support</li>
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<li>Better RADIUS support (including MS-CHAP)</li>
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<li>Improved handling of bad negotiation options</li>
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<li>Improved negotiation diagnostics</li>
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<li>Improved sockaddr (RTAX) parsing</li>
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<li>More consistent compile time options (NOXXX to compile something out)</li>
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<li>More available macros</li>
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<li>Firewall punching</li>
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<li>Improved ``proxy'' and ``proxyall'' handling</li>
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<li>Handle connected UDP sockets on descriptor 0 in -direct mode</li>
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<li>Fix a load of typos</li>
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<li>Update to internal version 3.1</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>IPFilter has recently been updated to version 3.4.29 and has not
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yet been thoroughly tested in -STABLE.</li>
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<li><strong>ahc</strong> and <strong>ahd</strong> Adaptec SCSI
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drivers: There has been a major update to the <tt>ahc</tt> and
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<tt>ahd</tt> device drivers. These drivers have not yet been
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thoroughly tested in -STABLE.</li>
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<li>bzip2 packages. bzip2 packages are now used by default.
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More testing of the pkg* tools is needed.</li>
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<li>ATA. There were some problems with tagged queuing and some
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CDROM read operations with the ATA stack in FreeBSD 4.6. These
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problems were fixed in 4.6.2, but more testing on different
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hardware is still needed.</li>
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<li>Sendmail has been updated to 8.12.5. This should be a very
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stable bugfix release, but sendmail users are encouraged to help
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test this before 4.7 is released.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>The <a href="../../relnotes.html">release notes</a> will always be
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a good place to look for things to test.</p>
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<h3>Known Issues</h3>
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<em>None at this time</em>
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&footer;
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</body>
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</html>
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