Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 13:28:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Wayne Cuddy <wayne@crb-web.com> To: FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass... Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9910031115460.4169-100000@crb.crb-web.com> In-Reply-To: <19991003133954.B24242@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
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On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 13:39:55 +0200 > From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> > To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> > Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass... > [........] > > At current, I can very much understand the reluctance of `new/young' > coders to start work on the system only to see their efforts get > trampled upon by `older/more experienced/more rusted shut' people who > like it as it is and don't want innovation to hit the system, or > otherwise don't seem to be able to offer a mentor-like/helping-hand > function towards these new people. > > > -- > Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl > The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; > Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best > Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > As a newbie to kernel programming, who might need a little help and guidance, the above is certainly true. I can attest to the fact that I have a certain reluctance to post some of my questions to this list(hackers). I have posted some in the past, many of which have gone unanswered, to which I know answers exists. This is certainly not the case in all situations. Note: I partially feel that OS band X receives a much higher level of developer contribution than FreeBSD... This is not meant the start a flame war or OS quality debate... MHO Wayne To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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