From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 2 16:45:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA11164 for current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 16:45:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA11155; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 16:45:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA15056; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 17:28:35 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704030028.RAA15056@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: ufs lock panic in -current To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 17:28:35 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, phk@critter.dk.tfs.com, ache@nagual.ru, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <18413.860026094@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 2, 97 04:08:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I am here to work on a platform which provides me the ability to > > do further research. I am not here to be your code supermarket. > > And if you're not here to work on that project in a way which is at > all compatible with the way everyone else works on that project, and > we've talked about this issue time and time again until I was blue > over it, then maybe you'd better go hunting for another platform since > your work is *never* going to make it in and we're just wasting our > time discussing the very existance of that work. Who else do you treat as a supermarket, where their whole sources must be laid out for you to pick and choose what you want, without regard to how your choices impact their own ability to use the resulting code base for their own research? Other than CSRG, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and occasionally Linux, I mean... > One would think that 2 years would be long enough to get the point. I > guess with some people it just takes longer (or harder walls). One would think that 2 years would be long enough to earn citizenship rights. You don't make these requirements of your other contributors. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.