From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Nov 26 21:57:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA13333 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 21:57:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA13328 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 21:57:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA24885; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:26:49 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id QAA04276; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:26:48 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981127162648.R682@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:26:48 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Adrian Filipi-Martin , Artur Grabowski Cc: Alicia da Conceicao , netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG, FreeBSD advocacy list , advocacy@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Merging Net/Free/Open-BSD together against Linux References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from ADRIAN Filipi-Martin on Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 12:49:30AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 27 November 1998 at 0:49:30 -0500, ADRIAN Filipi-Martin wrote: > On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, ADRIAN Filipi-Martin wrote: > >> So, again, who would like to participate on such a project, >> scanctioned by a *BSD core team, or not? The michanics of the process are >> fairly straight forward, but they are time intensive. > > Just an addendum to my previous message. If you think you would > be interested in helping on such a task, send me your address off-line. > I'll save them. > > If there is suficcient interest/manpower to make it more than a > one-man show, I'll set up a 3-way CVS mirror at UVa or maybe a local ISP. > We can tag an initial starting point and start merging into one of the > three trees. If this bears fruit we can then re-merge any recent changes > and make it a new baseline for userland. (Yes, there is undoubtedly a lot > more to consider, but it's a start.) > > I think minimally, there would need to be two people from each > group. I am best counted as a FreeBSD'er. Are there five others? Count me out. I don't think this is a worthwhile effort. Discuss things, maintain more communication, try to keep things pointing in the direction, sure. But your efforts aren't going to give us a unified userland: they're more likely to create a fourth version. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message