Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 16:53:54 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? - committer Issues Message-ID: <v04210100b5913613d3a5@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20000711092233.F26861@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007110924190.2296-100000@jasper.nighttide.net> <82343.963323518@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> <20000711092233.F26861@dragon.nuxi.com>
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At 9:22 AM -0700 7/11/00, David O'Brien wrote: >On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 03:51:58PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > I'm pretty sure that there's very little to be gained by > > importing LPRng into the base system, since: > > > > 1) We seem to have an active lpr maintainer again. > >I'll believe it when I see him actively _committing_ to it. >We've had so many people step forward to maintain something >and then never get around to doing it. If we are talking about me, which I assume we are, then let me note that so far I have not been made a committer. I do not have an account. I do not have access to the cvs repository (or if I do, no one has told me that I do...). I do have some pending updates to lpr in PR's. I would write more if it didn't seem silly to write more when the current ones are not being committed. I have been sending patches to freebsd's lpr over the past year or two, including cases where I have reviewed PR's that SOMEONE ELSE has sent in, and I wrote (or rewrote) a patch to address THAT freebsd user's question. Also note that I did specifically ask Warner to wait a bit on pushing the commit track for me, just because I have been tied up for the last few weeks with some paperwork that the IRS expects me to send them. Something about the letters 'IRS' still takes higher priority than the letters 'lpd'... :-) In any case, those IRS forms were mailed off around noon today. I do have a few more forms to fill out, but nothing that is likely to give me a ulcer, so as of right now I could start learning more about what I need to do to be a committer. I do not expect to be blazing my name in the sky right away, but I'm willing to see what I can do. Note that I *am* actively working on updates to RPI's lpr/lpd right now, some of which have to be working before the start of this fall semester. For the moment, lpd and lpr are pretty much my full-time work. I can either leave those updates in RPI's lpr/lpd (which is what I have been doing for the last five years -- check back on a message I sent to arch about a month or two ago), or I could fold those back into freebsd's lpr. It makes little difference to me. Also note that I'm not going to sit here and say nasty things about lprNG just because I am willing to be a committer for the current lpr. Patrick has done a lot of work with lprNG, and if people would rather have Patrick supporting freebsd's lpr (by importing lprNG to be the one and only lpr), then I will not feel insulted at all. I also will not be looking to be a committer, because I have no real experience with lprNG's internals. If you are going to go with lprNG, then you really ought to have the real author supporting it. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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