From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: A new NFSv4 server...
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:21:42 -0500
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On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 10:28:10AM -0500, Rick Macklem wrote:
> > Plus, surely in this day and age, we can figure out something better 
> > than waiting for face-to-face events to test something.  Maybe somebody 
> > could arrange a donation of some slice of a grid (Amazon EC2?), make 
> > various OS images available, and give engineers some way to request a 
> > selection of tests, with a selection of OS images?
> 
> I tried putting a server up accessible over the internet and only ever
> got one person testing on it once (or maybe it was just a hacker:-). I
> did test my client against a server at CITI once, after signing a
> bakeathon NDA. But, I agree, and I don't really think it even needs
> a central site. I don't see why vendors couldn't put up servers
> (production software or whatever they are comfortable having internet
>  accessible) that clients can test against. I'll be happy to put my
> server up and I'd be happy to test against internet accessible servers
> with my client.

Ditto.  I think it'd be great to have a variety of client and server
implementations available over the net, but I've had no luck talking
anybody else into it.

--b.