From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 8 9:33:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4509D37B576 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 09:33:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA09500; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 19:33:08 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 19:33:07 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: "Donald Burr of Borg - http://www.borg-cube.com/" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Merger, and what will its effects be on committers? In-Reply-To: <4.3.0.20000308085724.00b0f000@mail.borg-cube.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Donald Burr of Borg - http://www.borg-cube.com/ wrote: > Ok, I'm sure by now that everyone has seen the "Walnut Creek is merging > with BSDi" news, whether through Jordan's announcement or on /. or Where's that? > whatever. My personal opinion is "HELL YEAH!!!!" Both FreeBSD and BSDi > can only stand to gain through this. And it will help quash the > "Fragmented BSD" argument that those Linux weenies love to use. > > But I do have a concern, and it is an admittedly selfish and self-centered > one. How will this affect committers, such as myself? Admittedly I > haven't been doing much committing lately (there's been a LOT of weirdness > has been going on in my life lately), but I have been working at getting > back into things, slowly but surely. And I'd like to keep going at it :) > > * Will we have to renegotiate our contracts? Will there be new > rules/regulations to > read? Will there be forms that I have to sign? Etc... > * What about the development tools? Will we still be using CVS, > send-pr/GNATS, ssh > logins on freefall, etc.? I would hope yes. > * And the mailing lists? Any change there? Does bsdi have similar lists? > * What about Ports? This is probably my biggest concern, as Ports is the > area where I am > doing my work. > * Etc. > > That's what I want to know. :) > > - dburr (watching the /. trolls emerge from underneath their rocks and > other slimy > places, wheeeee! :)) > -- > Donald Burr Resistance is Futile | FreeBSD: The > WWW: http://www.borg-cube.com/ ICQ: UIN#16997506 | Power to > Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | Serve! http:// > Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | www.freebsd.org > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message