From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Mar 7 8:31:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5845A37B401 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 08:31:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7453C43F85 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 08:31:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: from blackhelicopters.org (mwlucas@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by blackhelicopters.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h27GUaTc027230; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 11:30:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h27GUSoH027229; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 11:30:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 11:30:28 -0500 From: "Michael W . Lucas" To: Dan Langille Cc: Nigel Weeks , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User and Machine Stats Message-ID: <20030307113028.A27163@blackhelicopters.org> References: <3E68128F.2000600@heidmann.com> <002601c2e464$f0158580$020aa8c0@aims.private> <3E68515C.21314.11A930@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3E68515C.21314.11A930@localhost>; from dan@langille.org on Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 07:59:24AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 07:59:24AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > On 7 Mar 2003 at 15:49, Nigel Weeks wrote: > > > I'll give the official FreeBSD crew a little time, as I'm in a bad timezone > > for getting quick responses. > > Why wait? Just do it. Official sanction isn't necessary for a good > idea. I understand the desire for it, but why not just go ahead and > do it? In fact, official sanction is unlikely. I wrote an article about the response you can expect when you try to do something, and about how to get your project accepted, so I'm not going to waste bandwidth repeating it: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/01/17/Big_Scary_Daemons.html ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Absolute BSD: http://www.AbsoluteBSD.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message