Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:27:15 -0700 From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> To: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Ian FREISLICH <if@hetzner.co.za>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: network slowness/freez-up since update 10/11 Message-ID: <20041014182715.GB665@empiric.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <20041014164044.GA52765@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20041014000822.GA30887@nagual.pp.ru> <E1CI5Cg-000GBI-00@hetzner.co.za> <20041014164044.GA52765@nagual.pp.ru>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Andrey, I hate to sound rude here, but, if something's broken for you, and you want that situation to change, barking at developers on current@ is more likely to result in that code staying broken rather than being fixed. On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 08:40:44PM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote: > There is nowhere said in this commit that if_de would or ever may be > broken. Everydays something new coming, and this commit is one between > similar others, nothing brings special attention to be aware of. I'll > expect special 'WARNING: de owners' message to current in such situations, > i.e. if something is not fixed to work together. I think your expectations of support are unrealistic here. FreeBSD is a largely unfunded volunteer open source project. de(4) has no official maintainer(s). Patches are welcome. On the other hand, if you want a commercial level of support, consider paying for it. If de(4) functionality is something you cannot live without, then consider offering a bounty, perhaps teaming up with other people who badly need de(4) support to match your funds and pool them. As a device for getting the attention and time of open source developers, this method works very well, and has been used here as well as in the OpenBSD community. Regards, BMS [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: '' iD8DBQFBbsUDueUpAYYNtTsRAr81AJ4x9txzlkLj/7CxyZ8hVO7lX7nK2wCgj5Qn 59KqMLX9vGtVvtnttbkwGmc= =Q8lY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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