From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 3 10:16:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from www.crb-web.com (ns1.crb-web.com [209.70.120.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0FF69153A9 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 10:16:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wayne@crb.crb-web.com) Received: (qmail 4965 invoked by uid 1001); 3 Oct 1999 17:28:13 -0000 Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 13:28:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Wayne Cuddy Reply-To: wayne@crb-web.com To: FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: Re: A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass... In-Reply-To: <19991003133954.B24242@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 13:39:55 +0200 > From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai > To: Poul-Henning Kamp > 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 > 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