Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 19:37:20 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, thorpej@nas.nasa.gov, dyson@iquest.net, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, Thu@apollo.backplane.com, 3@FreeBSD.ORG, Jun@FreeBSD.ORG, 1999@FreeBSD.ORG, 23.-0500@apollo.backplane.com, nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12) Message-ID: <199906110037.TAA02293@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199906110023.RAA20724@usr05.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jun 11, 99 00:23:39 am"
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> > For what it's worth, and to throw another hat into the fray, it > seems to me that two things are driving the tension here: > > 1) Matt is effectively in a position where he no longer has > to work, and can now dedicate a significant amount of > focussed effort over long intervals at FreeBSD code. > > 2) The review process currently in force requires review by > people who do not have such a luxury of time in which to > review the code Matt produces; stated simply: they can't > keep up. > > Having been in a similar position, where an employer was having > me spend 8 hours a day working on filesystem code, the changes > to which were 85%-90% applicable to FreeBSD, I can sympathize > with Matts position. > I can also. Software developers and engineers are NOT interchangeable though. Therefore, the various skills and abilities don't always match the needs... IMO, the best thing that can effectively be done is to continue the way things are going, until appropriate people can be available to keep the pipeline full. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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