From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 9 13:48:09 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5925CD3E for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 13:48:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2A9F427D8 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 13:48:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jre-mbp.elischer.org (ppp121-45-246-96.lns20.per2.internode.on.net [121.45.246.96]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r99DltqL041739 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 9 Oct 2013 06:47:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <52555E86.7010504@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 21:47:50 +0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hans Ottevanger Subject: Re: rcs References: <77307DF8-637D-4295-BF47-8742F1552CE8@orthanc.ca> <525503A2.50002@beastielabs.net> In-Reply-To: <525503A2.50002@beastielabs.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" , Lyndon Nerenberg X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 13:48:09 -0000 On 10/9/13 3:20 PM, Hans Ottevanger wrote: > On 10/08/13 04:31, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: >> Okay folks, can we make a call about keeping the RCS tools in the base? >> >> The proponents wanting to remove RCS need to speak up and make their technical case. >> > Technically it is quite simple: I need RCS to start versioning config > files, even before starting any customization. I know about several > others who do the same (and have not yet defected to Linux). > > I would like to see RCS to be put back into the tree for 10.0. If it > really -has- to be victimized by the current anti-GPL crusade, it could > be replaced by OpenRCS in 11. > > And as a long time hard-core user I would appreciate if this kind of > changes were performed only after at least -some- public discussion. > The way this change was sneaked in (though apparently with approval of > core@), reminds me more of a Secret Society than of an Open Source project. no, with private approval of a CORE MEMBER.. that is quite a different thing.. Core, AFAIK has not ruled on this sort of topic.. (and actually it's not really it's job to do so unless it's resolving a dispute.) > > Regards, > > Hans > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >