Hi, I may be optimistic, but I really think that a LOT of people here would be very willing to have one instance of thier servers running update tests.
I can probably say (with the help of Flubber), that we would REALLY appreciate to sacrifice a server for one week to give Valve a real feedback about their updates, instead of playing dices each times a new update is released.... On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:16 PM, David A. Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > I think they test the releases, but I think the tests are probably done > on only one server and probably never under any kind of realistic player > load. It's probably a quick "I signed into the server and it didn't > crash, so the build must be good" kind of test. > > - Dave > > MoggieX wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to be sarcastic about the recent updates, however to be more > > constructive, does anyone [or can someone comment from Valve] think Valve > > actually test these builds on a Linux box at all, or just releases > > willy-nilly. > > > > We've had almost an issue a day for the past week, if its not dying > because > > a segmentation error at start, its dying because a player chose the spy > > class or fails to update because the steam servers are too busy. > > > > Its not a problem when you have just one game instance, however when you > > have 15 its a nightmare and I really feel for the companies that actually > > rent these games out to people, they must be running around in circles > > covering for the mess someone else made. > > > > Would it be too much to ask to have Ubuntu and CentOS on a old machine > > somewhere in Valves office, just to test these updates on. > > > > MoggieX > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > > -- > > Dave Parker > Utica College > Integrated Information Technology Services > (315) 792-3229 > Registered Linux User #408177 > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
