Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 13:12:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Gregory D. Moncreaff" <moncrg@ma.ultranet.com> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NETCCITT sources Message-ID: <199808271712.NAA09704@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <35E59588.80FD2077@ma.ultranet.com> References: <199808270116.VAA07223@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199808270451.WAA06588@obie.softweyr.com> <35E59588.80FD2077@ma.ultranet.com>
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<<On Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:21:12 -0500, "Gregory D. Moncreaff" <moncrg@ma.ultranet.com> said: > Hey, I offerred to [help] maintain netiso's OSI, > I guess no one was interested... It's more than that -- even with a maintainer on board (and such people have an unfortunate tendency to drift away over time), there is still a significant maintenance headache for anyone making major changes to the structure of the kernel. Either they have to go through rounds of tedious interchange with all the outside maintainers of various bits, or they have to do all the work themselves. Speaking as someone who has gone through this a number of times, it's not fun and either way often leaves bits of the kernel broken for undesirably long periods. >From our perspective, if something isn't widely-enough used that people will notice its breaking, we are better off having it maintained outside our tree -- that way, we're not stuck with the burden of maintaining something none of us use or can verify functionally. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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