From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 15 19:38:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA29890 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 19:38:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wwwi.com (root@voltimand.csd.wwwi.com [199.1.92.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA29881 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 19:38:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cornelius (cornelius.csd.wwwi.com [199.1.92.20]) by wwwi.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA12637 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 19:38:08 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 19:38:08 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199610160238.TAA12637@wwwi.com> X-Sender: jdw@pop.wwwi.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org From: "Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse" Subject: Re: IP bugs in FreeBSD 2.1.5 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 10:47 AM 10/16/96 +0930, Michael Smith wrote: >Does -stable matter to you? Do you or your >business want to see -stable move forwards? THEN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. It's really hard not to say something dreadfully sarcastic here. Especially after I specifically addressed this point in my previous messages. It's really nice that you have enough time to work on FreeBSD, but not all of us are so lucky. The attitude that my (or anyone else's) opinion is unimportant because I'm "only" a user is counterproductive. >Nothing will happen if nobody makes it happen. FreeBSD has to go >somewhere, and 2.2 is where. I wasn't suggesting that 2.1.5 should diverge at all, only that it may be time to start thinking about the possibly large portion of the FreeBSD userbase that isn't seeing any of the benefit of all the hard work you're doing. Later, Jeff