Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 18:48:34 -0400 From: David Magda <dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca> To: John Marshall <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stale NTP in FreeBSD Message-ID: <99C2F370-F611-47EC-9EFA-8015F5E39C08@ee.ryerson.ca> In-Reply-To: <20131028042000.GA1455@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au> References: <20131028042000.GA1455@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au>
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On Oct 28, 2013, at 00:20, John Marshall = <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au> wrote: > The version of ntp in FreeBSD has been 'legacy' since December 2009 > (almost 4 years ago). Is there a technical reason why we are stuck at > 4.2.4 or is it simply lack of volunteer resources? Perhaps ntp (and > some of the other imported software in the base) is just not on > anybody's RADAR? I know I can "use the port" if I want a current > version of ntp, but I can't see the point of shipping superseded stuff > in the base without good reason. Given the lack of response, it looks like new features and new imports = may be better directed at freebsd-current@. For your specific question: FreeBSD is a mostly-volunteer project, with = some corporate sponsorship. It looks like no one is willing to volunteer = their time on a new version of NTP, and no company is willing to pay = someone to look into it. Going to the NTP software, the most recent version that is called = "production" is 4.2.6p5 from 2011-12-24, which isn't that much newer = than what's currently there: http://www.ntp.org/downloads.html http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SoftwareDownloads As it stands, the last person to really touch the NTP code in FreeBSD is = roberto@, and that was three years ago: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/contrib/ntp/ http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/vendor/ntp/ Unless you're willing to submit patches, he may be your best starting = point to see if he's willing to pick up the torch again. --=20 David Magda=
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