Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 15:30:38 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> Subject: RE: libh src/ import Message-ID: <XFMail.010906153038.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <p05101019b7bda33a9172@[128.113.24.47]>
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On 06-Sep-01 Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 12:05 PM -0700 9/6/01, John Baldwin wrote: >>On 06-Sep-01 Alexander Langer wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> How are peoples feelings about an import of libh into our src tree, >>> in order to push the development? >> >>As I said on IRC in an opinion that no one else seems to share, libh >>is useful in a wider regard than just FreeBSD, and I think it should >>be a separate project that gets vendor imported into src/contrib. > > I agree it should be somewhere better than src/release. > > I don't like the idea of a project that we have complete control > over would end up in src/contrib, however. I understand that it > could have a wider audience than just FreeBSD, but src/contrib > is supposed to be for those things that we "keep our hands off of, > unless we really really have to change something, and even then we > have to get the maintainer's explicit permission and a 2/3 majority > of the house of representatives (and every country's equivalent) > before we make a change". You are making an erroneous assumption that all libh developers are FreeBSD developers. At least one libh committer is _not_ a FreeBSD committer. GUI's and OS's are two different things and draw from different developer communities (albeit communities that intersect at points). A similar idea would be if we decided to write our own C compiler and make it part of the FreeBSD project instead of being its own project. Or our own graphical system that is a replacement for X. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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