From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 25 23:58:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96D6B37BBC4; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 23:58:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA44927; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 23:58:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <390693A0.509C3134@gorean.org> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 23:58:40 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0422 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Wackerbarth Cc: Kris Kennaway , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Archive pruning References: <00042515302702.02802@nomad.dataplex.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > > Actually, I didn't start this. Someone else brought up the idea. > > > > ...and quickly decided it was not worthwhile. > > Yes, the developers do a good job of repressing opinions that differ from > their own. But good ideas take on a life of their own, regardless. The trick is, code talks. I could give you lots of examples, but it wouldn't make any difference since you're just restating the same points over and over again regardless of what people are telling you. > > I haven't heard anyone say that. What I have heard is "too much work for > > too little gain". If you still disagree, it's time to put up or shut up > > And if I put up, will you (the organization) use it? What, "the organization?" FreeBSD is the users, not the people you're busy pissing off. Figure out a way to make your idea work, then figure out a way to make a port of it. I think the cvsup-mirror port is a good example of something in the same family (maybe a distant cousin). Then submit your port, and let's see how many people actually do find it valuable. I can't speak for any of the committers, but I'd almost guarantee that several people who've responded to this thread would be willing to commit your port just for the chance to see it go down in flames, which is as close to a guarantee as you're going to get. Any further discussion from you on this point that doesn't include code is totally and completely without value. You haven't proven the value of your suggestion to _anyone's_ satisfaction, so no one is going to do it for you. So if you're not willing to actually do it, please let it drop. Good luck, Doug -- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. -- W. Somerset Maugham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message