From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 19 10: 7: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.249.129.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 499EC152CA for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:07:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA43787; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:02:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199904191702.KAA43787@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: W Gerald Hicks Cc: Alex Zepeda , "Daniel C. Sobral" , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current , wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: newbus and modem(s) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:41:44 EDT." <199904191641.MAA24418@bellsouth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:02:51 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD is somewhat of a closed development enviroment what some organizations do is that they maintain their own cvs repository. CVS repository is guarded by the core members and only "certified" committers are allowed to commit code that in addition to not having a procedure or a processs to mitigate technical conflicts such as new config vs new-bus makes the develpment process at least a closed one from the perspective of the FreeBSD cvs repository. > > And then what about newconfig? To me this just adds more truth to the > > whole /. argument that *BSD promotes a closed development model. > > It's a flawed argument and one that doesn't acknowledge, at least in > the case of FreeBSD, the existence of publicly accessible CVS repositories > along with the GNATS databases for non-committer submissions. > > It's a more centralized development model but not necessarily a closed one. > > Cheers, > > Jerry Hicks > wghicks@bellsouth.net > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Amancio Hasty hasty@star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message