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Date:      Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:04:07 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Wishlists (was Re: SCO (was Re: hi terry)) 
Message-ID:  <20193.890363047@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Mar 1998 18:56:33 PST." <199803200256.SAA26235@kithrup.com> 

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> Want a good wishlist?  Here it is:
> 
> 1.  Sit down in front of a FreeBSD system.
> 2.  Log in.
> 3.  Do whatever it is that interests you.
> 4.  What, in step (3), annoyed you, either via wrong behaviour (e.g., a bug,
> 	or incorrect behaviour) or via missing behaviour?
> 5.  Fix whatever you said in step (4).
> 
> That is basicly what I do.

This is also, I might add, how about 90% of all serious work in
FreeBSD gets done.  It's rare indeed that a developer dives on
something just because it needs doing and somebody read it to him off
a TODO list.  Far more often, they do it because it annoys them
*personally*, there being no better motivator that I know of. :-)

					Jordan

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