Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 23:06:06 -0600 (CST) From: "Lee Crites (AEI)" <leec@adam.adonai.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wishlists (was Re: SCO (was Re: hi terry)) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980319225323.20765F-100000@adam.adonai.net> In-Reply-To: <20193.890363047@time.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
=>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. :-)
I guess I have to apologize, then. I was under the impression
that things were a little more organized/structured. I thought
there was some core team who periodically met/communicated on
what was what and where things should go, and how we should get
there.
So I am now curious about how FreeBSD maintains it's cohesiveness
and direction. If people are working on things which annoy them,
then how are new features implemented? Who decides what to add
and how to add it? Is it pure anarchy, with each person moving
in the direction they personally feel they should go?
This is an important point to me. I've been selling my idea of a
consolidated core team as I have described earlier. While I
guess it doesn't matter in the big scheme of things, I *would*
like to be making accurate statements.
Shucks, if it's really that open, I might just try my hand at a
few of the changes I've thought about...
Lee
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