From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 1 14:37:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA08278 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:37:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA08264 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:37:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA06776 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 00:37:01 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA17010; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 22:54:10 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970401225410.UY37092@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 22:54:10 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Code maintenance References: <199704011920.MAA04841@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199704011946.MAA11874@phaeton.artisoft.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199704011946.MAA11874@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Apr 1, 1997 12:46:06 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > 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. > > Better that it be lost forever? Yes, see the ft(4) and aic(4) drivers for two good examples. Both sorely lack a maintainer, and nobody seems to be interested in doing this job. p.s.: Please, avoid Cc'ing me in every followup. One message for the mailing list is enough. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)