Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 21:50:29 -0700 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org>, George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com> Subject: Re: A proposal for code removal prior to FreeBSD 13 Message-ID: <1545108629.76088.116.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201812180109.wBI19eaK098408@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <201812180109.wBI19eaK098408@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 17:09 -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > ntpd is useful. timed, not so much. ntpd is widely deployed, timed not so > > much. ntpd is actively maintained, timed hasn't changed in 30 years in any > > meaningful way. Etc. On all these factors, timed should go. > > Your "not so much" is very subjective. > ntpd may or maynot be actively maintained as pointed out by others. > Change != used, unchanged != unused, please stop drawing conclusions > that are marginal at best. Can we please stop this ridiculous fiction that ntpd is not maintained before people in other parts of the internet start pointing at us and laughing at what a bunch of uninformed rubes we are? The ntpd developers have, in the past six months, accepted and then released an enhancement that originated right here in freebsd. Just two days ago they accepted a patch from me for a small bugfix. Ntpd is very much actively maintained. -- Ian
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