From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 1 12:03:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA25923 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 12:03:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from pdx1.world.net (pdx1.world.net [192.243.32.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA25917 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 12:03:53 -0800 (PST) From: proff@suburbia.net Received: from suburbia.net (suburbia.net [203.4.184.1]) by pdx1.world.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA03128 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 12:06:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 3723 invoked by uid 110); 1 Apr 1997 20:03:18 -0000 Message-ID: <19970401200318.3722.qmail@suburbia.net> Subject: Re: Internal clock In-Reply-To: <199704011920.MAA04841@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Apr 1, 97 12:20:39 pm" To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 06:03:18 +1000 (EST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > proff@suburbia.net writes: > > then they fall by as the original authors move onto other projects. > > Then adding the code into the tree is a 'bad thing', since it becomes > unsupported. If no-one is willing to incorporate/support the code, then > it shouldn't be incorporated. > > > Nate > That philosophy guarentees one to failure. The code doesn't have a chance of being supported till it gets exposure and people start relying on it. If it starts bit-rotting then you let it fade (e.g x.25 code), or back it out. Don't shoot yourself before you are even on the track. Cheers, Julian.