From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 19 19:04:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA06229 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:04:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA06172 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:03:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20196 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:04:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wishlists (was Re: SCO (was Re: hi terry)) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 19 Mar 1998 18:56:33 PST." <199803200256.SAA26235@kithrup.com> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:04:07 -0800 Message-ID: <20193.890363047@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message