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Subject: Re: PR backlog
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On =D3=C5=D2=C5=C4=C1 26 =C7=D2=D5=C4=C5=CE=D8 2007, M. Warner Losh wrote:
=3D As a project we're not leveraging the community sufficiently when it
=3D comes to contributions. =9AThe current system of patch review and
=3D submission is very hap-hazard. =9AIf you happen to get the attention of
=3D the right person at the right time, then it goes in. =9AIf not, patches
=3D can languish a long time in the PR system.

This is /generally/ true, and has been for years. However, the USB-part of=
=20
=46reeBSD is in a /particularly/ bad shape, so something USB-specific may b=
e in=20
order.

There is talk about a "whole new" USB reimplementation, and somebody is=20
working in the Perforce nirvana-land on it. Maybe, that work needs a closer=
=20
look by other experts so as to bring it to the FreeBSD masses faster...

	-mi