Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 11:52:34 -0500 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: "Michael W . Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: Nigel Weeks <nigel@e-easy.com.au>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User and Machine Stats Message-ID: <3E688802.16508.E7200C@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20030307113028.A27163@blackhelicopters.org> References: <3E68515C.21314.11A930@localhost>; from dan@langille.org on Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 07:59:24AM -0500
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On 7 Mar 2003 at 11:30, Michael W . Lucas wrote: > 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 f you have an idea, just do it. Try it out. Get something running, however crude and ugly you may think it is. A working proof-of- concept is worth far more than any long description. Your support will come from your users. Make your ideas widely known, have something to show them, and they'll come. If everyone waited for official sanction, nothing would ever happen. <blatant act of ego-self-inflation> FWIW, none of FreshPorts, FreshSource, and The FreeBSD Diary received any type of "official sanction" before they were started. <blatant act of ego-self-inflation> -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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