From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 17 17:09:11 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA14787 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 17 Dec 1995 17:09:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA14773 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 1995 17:09:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.1/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with SMTP id MAA20207 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 12:28:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA01656; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 13:20:18 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199512122020.NAA01656@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: FBSD support inc. To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 13:20:18 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, dennis@etinc.com, julian@freefall.freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <17017.818733582@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Dec 11, 95 05:59:42 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > Basically it's one of those double-edged swords, like merging with > > > NetBSD. A lot of really enticing benefits on the surface but a host > > > of sticky problems to solve underneath. > > > > Like how do you deal with suddenly running on 12 more platforms for > > nearly free. > > No, it's how do you deal with suddenly being forced to do release > engineering for 12 platforms where one was formerly enough to drive > the release engineer to early retirement? By making the administrative interfaces for all system identical, and by data-driving those areas where it's not possible to resolve the interface conflicts. CV: my more recent articles on logical device management in a devfs framework. It's an engineering problem, not a management problem. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.