Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 15:28:11 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci if_tl.c if_tlreg.h Message-ID: <19980523152811.D317@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199805222031.PAA02427@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Fri, May 22, 1998 at 03:31:19PM -0500 References: <199805221212.FAA09041@antipodes.cdrom.com> <199805222031.PAA02427@dyson.iquest.net>
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(moved to -chat) On Fri, 22 May 1998 at 15:31:19 -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: > Mike Smith said: >>> >>> However, FreeBSD, in this, is acting just the same as the linux crowd is >>> and to be quite frank, IMHO it's just plain silliness. >> >> Bruce != FreeBSD >> > (Not speaking for -core, but this is IMO.) > > I want to chime in and agree with that, but also make sure that > people know that each -core member normally represents only themselves. > When I go on my ranting sessions about a subject that shall remain > unstated, but well known, that doesn't mean that -core agrees with > me. > > The only way that "-core" forms an opinion is by consensus, or > by someone who is delegated to express opinions for "-core." > The "-core" team is kind of like a legislative body, where each > person has their own opinions, however strong, when a collective > decision is made, the "-core" team comes together and expresses > that decision officially. > > There is great value in the diversity in opinion that FreeBSD core > members express. The advantage that we have, is that we do have > a stable state where we do eventually know that we have to work > together and do move forward, without splitting into splinter > teams. > > All the above isn't to say that -core members don't have valuable > opinions indivdually, but -core is part of a mechanism that we > use to balance FreeBSD into a real and viable project. Well stated. I'm tending to think of the FreeBSD project as an anarchy that works the way it should. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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