From owner-cvs-all Wed Mar 14 17:49:15 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from filk.iinet.net.au (syncopation-dns.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 276DB37B719 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:49:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: (qmail 19108 invoked by uid 666); 15 Mar 2001 01:50:18 -0000 Received: from i077-094.nv.iinet.net.au (HELO elischer.org) (203.59.77.94) by mail.m.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 15 Mar 2001 01:50:18 -0000 Message-ID: <3AB01F6A.E3911501@elischer.org> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:48:26 -0800 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: nate@yogotech.com, asmodai@wxs.nl, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The Project and onward [was: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinetip_output.c] References: <20010313104243.B60817@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20010313131934K.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <15023.42384.196115.528084@nomad.yogotech.com> <20010314104836N.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan Hubbard wrote: > We're not the authors of this software, we're just the current > custodians, and a lot of the "technical guidelines" which discourage > truly directionless development were already set in place 25 years > ago. As far as I can see, everything we've done over the last 9 years > has been incremental development within the scope of those guidelines > and not a function of some brilliant group of strategists who've since > departed the project. There has been an overriding direction that has been acknowledged by many: More modularity loadable everything. better interfaces > > Our strategy has never been anything more "brilliant" than fixing > bugs, updating tools, writing drivers for new hardware as it appeared > and with a very occasional foray into truly new ground with things > like netgraph (which could also be argued to be more evolutionary than > revolutionary). If that isn't already being customer driven then I > don't know what is and I was merely reaffirming my support for that > strategy. Put your fur down before you give yourself a hairball. > > - Jordan -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000-2001 ---> X_.---._/ v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message