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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: why bother submitting anything (via send-pr)
In-Reply-To: <199708102356.RAA27563@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Aug 10, 97 05:56:47 pm"
To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 09:04:45 +0200 (MET DST)
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> > The PRs seem to be orphaned since Mike Pritchard left the FreeBSD
> > project in May 1997.  We submitters who are not committers have a
> > *very* hard time getting any feedback.
> 
> This is the main problem, and Mike didn't actually leave the project so
> much as disappeared from the face of the earth.  Since no warning was
> given, and that people often 'go away' on volunteer projects it wasn't
> considered a bad thing until all attempts to contact him were
> un-successful.
> 
> > Jordan mentioned that he's going to hire developers for porting
> > the OS to another architecture. (He left open which architecture.)
> > I conclude from this, the desertion of the PRs and the discussion
> > about current ports versus stable ports that the FreeBSD project
> > is switching to a commercial company that does not depend on
> > volunteers any more in the long run.
> 
> Your conclusions are wrong.  Jordan is simply 'paying' for a port to

This is, what I wanted to read :-)

Wolfgang