Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:15:55 -0500 From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) To: admin@lissyara.su Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, bms@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Support AV Stream on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20080925221555.GA5042@soaustin.net>
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> And can anyone answer the question - what is the way FreeBSD? Or goal is > not? Just write the code - without way? To reiterate something I have said to other people on many occasions: you have the wrong model for FreeBSD in your mind. There is no "one goal" for FreeBSD. There are as many goals as there are individual developers. Sometimes, in the best case, some of the goals get shared. But there is no predefined "list of goals" that developers are then required to work on. FreeBSD works from the bottom-up, not the top-down. If an individual developer is interested enough to get a kernel change made (including doing the technical work, and then collaborating with the other developers to get it done in a way that most people can agree to), then it gets done. Otherwise: it doesn't. Whatever other people say in public, or post on mailing lists, about what *they* think FreeBSD ought to be, or how things should be supported, and on and on, should be taken in that context -- including this email. I can tell you what *my* goals are, and that I'm certain they will not all be accomplished. I can tell you what I think it's worth my spending my own time to accomplish. But that's it. mcl
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