[PATCH] Added NoDelay config option and nodelay subsystem option

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Fri Feb 8 21:51:24 EST 2002


On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Tobias Ringstrom wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, mouring wrote:
> 
> > http://www.openssh.com/portable.html  has snapshots every night.  Yet
> > no large mass of people are testing it.
> 
> I think the general public is too lazy to test a new version every day.  
> The snapshots just before a release will probably get more testing if they 
> are advertised appropriately, i.e. not lost in the background noise.

We usually do call out for testers a few weeks before a release and try
to get as much platform coverage as possible.

> It may also help to have a (low volume) announcement mailing list for
> announcing release candidates as well as releases.

We have openssh-unix-announce at mindrot.org, but I have never used it for 
prerelease announcements. Perhaps this is a good idea...

> The Linux release "system" has lots of problem, no doubt.  One recent good
> thing was the introduction of release candidates.  (I know it's nothing
> new in other projects.)  Ideally, there will be no changes from the
> release candidate to the real release.

What like 2.4.0 :)

-d




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