From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 29 12:12:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA05959 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 12:12:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA05861 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 12:12:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA29774; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 13:11:51 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA28709; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 13:11:50 -0600 Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 13:11:50 -0600 Message-Id: <199807291911.NAA28709@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: Nate Williams , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Conspiracy Theories (Was: Re: The future of the bt848 driver? (FW: cvs commit: CVSROOT avail) ) In-Reply-To: References: <199807291837.MAA28435@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Heck, if I were to venture a guess, I'd say that John left because he > > couldn't work with the other members of core, for whatever reason. > > Right now, that is what I'm seeing also :( How many ppl *are* on > core? Is it an over-bloated 'elitist' club that needs to be trim'd > down? Quite the opposite. I think it needs to be gone through and people who are helping should be given a berth, and people who don't have time anymore should be asked to step down. IMO, being a 'core' member is a not a life-time appointment. But, that's just my opinion, which with a dollar will by you coffee. :) > Since I've started using FreeBSD, and been a member of these > lists, the names that stick out, some possibly erroneously associated: > > Jordan: head honcho/businessman/hacker/jack of all trades > Amancio: Multimedia guru > John Dyson: VM god > You: Networking *Phhft* Me, I just dink around with whatever I find interesting. Bill Fenner is the networking guru, and Garrett is the one providing future direction. The only thing I do is cause trouble, just ask Jordan. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message