From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 13 14:42:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 061A516A4CF for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:42:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from fubar.adept.org (fubar.adept.org [63.147.172.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B273843D62 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:42:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@adept.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.adept.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 419FD15440 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:42:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from fubar.adept.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (fubar.adept.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 08005-10 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:42:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from adept.org (mojo.televoke.net [63.237.196.133]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by fubar.adept.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0111E15239 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:42:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4004745B.2050807@adept.org> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:42:35 -0800 From: Mike Hoskins User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031110 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org References: <1117.1073990948@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <1117.1073990948@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Status reports - why not regularly? X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:42:40 -0000 [i snipped the current CC.] Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20040113093903.GA84055@mimoza.pantel.net>, Antal Rutz writes: >>Hi. >>I just read the status report of the year 2003 from DragonFlyBSD. >>I ask (not only) myself why don't we have something like this monthly or >>bi-monthly. > Because everybody who thought about this concept went on to think > "and what is core@ doing about it ??!" rather than open an editor > and begin to write :-) > Seriously: It would be great to have. By all means begin right away! no offense, as this is usually the "do it yourself" open source way i subscribe to... however, i believe the original point was to have someone _knowledable_ write the reports. hence the typical allusion to core. i don't think it has to be core, but it should be someone with a good architectural understanding of BSD and Free in particular... that way they can filter the core data and sources like cvs-all into something meaningful to the masses. i mean... i could just pull all the data together and turn it into a "report". but i seriously doubt it'd be more useful than just browsing cvs-all online... so the right person has to do the reporting for it to actually be of value IMCO.