From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jun 26 19:10:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A75B37B43B for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 19:09:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0039.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.39] helo=mindspring.com) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17NOjH-0000eX-00; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 19:09:52 -0700 Message-ID: <3D1A73BA.7AECC9CB@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 19:08:58 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Reilly Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where do you see FreeBSD in 10 years? References: <3D06EBDC.99C72671@mindspring.com> <1025137887.15145.46.camel@gurney.reilly.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Reilly wrote: > Hi Terry, > > Not many followups. Did you get any direct responses? I received a few direct responses; that's really not enough to post a summary without direct quotes. Mostly it's just been the sound of crickets on the mailing list. This was intended to be a basis for renewed architectural discussion. I guess I could restate it as one question, with some initial premises: Given that there are 259 committers; there are 10 years; 52 weeks per year, and an estimate of an average of 8 hours per week per committer of total committer and non-committer volunteer work is not unreasonable (committers outnumber contributors by a large margin). That gives a total of roughly 1,000,000 man hours of labor to spend over the next ten years, even assuming no growth. Or roughly 20 human lifetimes of labor. If you could wave a magic wand, spend 1,000,000 man hours of labor on anything you wanted, as long as it had to do with FreeBSD, what would FreeBSD look like after it was all done? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message