AsiaBSDCon 2009:The OpenBSD Release Process: A Success Story
AsiaBSDCon 2009 Plenary Talk.
Speaker:
Theo de Raadt is the project leader of the OpenBSD project, and the founder of OpenSSH. He started writing free unix tools in 1988. In 1995 he convinced a bunch of strange foreigners to work with him on a security-focused unix operating system. He lives in Calgary, and has no time for a job since the OpenBSD developers consume too much of his time. He only accepts invitations to speak at conferences if excellent hiking is nearby.
Abstract:
Twelve years ago OpenBSD developers started engineering a release process that has resulted in quality software being delivered on a consistent 6 month schedule — 25 times in a row, exactly on the date promised, and with no critical bugs. This on-time delivery process is very different from how corporations manage their product releases and much more in tune with how volunteer driven communities are supposed to function. Developer and testing laziness is mostly circumvented and leader frustration is kept to a minimum. The reasons, mechanics and social workings of our process have never been detailed outside the project, but now will be, hopefully providing some insight to others who face delays and quality issues with their own product lines.
Duration : 0:30:14
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@MeshugenahScientist LOLZ awesome
@tcadroas Are you …
@tcadroas Are you really serious… so if you have a crap Operating System, low level unchallenging job, come from a poor country with poor a education system, and speak badly in one language – u can still be intelligent ? huh – go figure…
Then again intelligence is an overrated characteristic that guarantess absolutely nothing… alot massive losers out there who are “intelligent”… weird…
sure theo love his …
sure theo love his comic sans.
I thought you were …
I thought you were serious, there are plenty of people who think like that, and you should know by now that neither sarcasm nor satire transfer over the internet.
I don’t believe myself smarter than anyone whose not a complete imbecile to begin with — you’re the one quoting and obsessing about intelligence. not that I’m any better. I’m about to reply to another of your comments. ^^
I don’t drive. I don’t drive cars. I see I’m not the only one here to make assumptions.
I agree, the OS you …
I agree, the OS you use doesn’t make you any more intelligent, nor do the degrees you have, jobs/titles you’ve held, country you were born/live in, color of your skin, or the languages that you speak.
I meet many people who speak more than one language and they think it makes them geniuses. It’s unimpressive. Then they insult me in three word sentences in anything but English. What I really find funny is those who believe reading books makes them smarter than everyone else.
“We are summoning …
“We are summoning forth the proletariat around the globe to aid us in this revolution [to ban Comic Sans]. We call on the common man to rise up in revolt against this evil of typographical ignorance. By banding together to eradicate this font from the face of the earth we strive to ensure that future generations will be liberated from this epidemic and never suffer this scourge that is the plague of our time.”
–Revolutionary Group for the Eradication of Comic Sans from the Face of the Earth
Who’s Theo? I’d …
Who’s Theo? I’d like to hire him to kick a few arses.
*PS This was my …
*PS This was my attempt at humor; i.e. making fun of “Revolutionary talk.”
*LOL*
Well, I had to laugh at my own joke, if nobody else will.
People like that …
People like that tend to come to pages like this with the mindset of “I’m a seriously intelligent dude, as evidenced by my interest in ‘Operating System Technology’.” And reading with frowny foreheads, they’re unable to see any humor here, so rigid and determined is their need to appear so very intelligent.
I guess a showy display of rage toward Debian is what he believes will make him look “intelligent”. **LOL**
I was making fun of …
I was making fun of “Revolutionaries” and the kinds of things they say. Gee, you’re not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, are you?
You remind me of that saying that the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, but the ILLUSION of knowledge.
U regard things like “cars” in a superficial sense, settling on the premise that they’re unquestionably desirable to our lives. But you’re blind to the reality that they kill more people in the developed nations than all the conflicts in the world
The logic of humor …
The logic of humor tends to be broken; it’s what makes it humor
But since you’ve taken it seriously: Many people can’t afford lawyers, CEOs vote themselves enormous salaries that have nothing to do with the market rate for their skill, computers and the internet threaten to be wonderful facilities for the authorities to track and control people, facilities that will give them unprecedented power, which will inevitably be abused.
Put your brain into high gear, mate, (it that’s at all possible)
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@MeshugenahScientist
Let’s follow your extremely broken logic.
No lawyers. No legal representation. No trials.
No CEO’s, no companies, no jobs, no money, no government. No computers, no internet, nothing, no buying food.
No banks. No loans, no homes. Rich investors buy and rent out homes.
No Real Estate agents mean that only people with real estate training can buy homes. That happens to be rich INVESTORS.
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@MeshugenahScientist
And the best part is, you can pretend the world is like this, give up cars that were ever new, your home built by corporations, payed for by the loan taken from a bank, and the rights you had protected by real estate agents, you have to farm now, because you don’t own anything.
You are the stupidest person in the entire world.
I truly hope you die a painful death.
Damn brainwashed …
brainwashed drones!
Come the Revolution, we’ll have them all hanging off telegraph poles, along with Real Estate Agents, Bankers, Credit Card Compan CEOs and the like.
Yeah, and we should …
Yeah, and we should have it written in the new Constitution to make it illegal to flout such established philosophies.
We need more people …
We need more people like you; people who put their heart in it.
Without a heart, where would we be? Dead I suppose, and with more bugs than the SPARC release.
Thass right mate. …
Thass right mate. That Debian does deepthroat, that’s how deeply it sucks.
Thank you for your, um, “deep” comments.
Good stuff. Other …
Good stuff. Other projects have a lot to learn from OpenBSD’s process.
I agree with the …
I agree with the idea of running latest code. That is why I use Debian testing on my desktop and non-production-critical servers. For the production servers, I’m more than happy that the stable release cycle is 3 years. In the Linux world there will be always bugs and security issues and maintaining more releases will be waste of time and resources like Theo said. This is what happened to Ubuntu.
I did my best to …
I did my best to use debian at work, because it gets tiring to port linux, but I put over 12 hours effort in trying to get debian-stable’s statd to not freeze up on start-up, including source code diving (which is not anywhere near as elegant as in bsd, I can find the source code with my eyes closed in /usr/src). I gave up and installed bsd, I’ve already lost more time than I would porting software that isn’t compatible in BSD.
I am smarter for …
I am smarter for having watched this. inspiring.
I think everyone …
I think everyone has taken Google talks for granted and how well setup they are.
I’m sorry my …
I’m sorry my attempt at humor was lost at your ignorant, unfounded rage toward Debian. Frankly, I learned *nix on FreeBSD and loved the coherence of it all, but have since taken to using Ubuntu and Debian for my home server and laptop.
I’m open to hearing discussions on the matter of OpenBSD vs. Debian (which would be off-topic of Theo’s video), but it seems you’re more content throwing attacks at Debian with no citation or even ATTEMPTS at anecdotal evidence, followed by unabashed trolling.
Ah, yes; the new …
Ah, yes; the new habit of Debian or GNU trolls to do simple syntactic reversals of statements they disagree with.
You think it makes you look intelligent. In reality it makes you look like exactly what you are; brainwashed drones.
Your monitor is …
Your monitor is crap. I could see him, and with HQ turned on I could read everything.
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