From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 5 15:33:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27143 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 15:33:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27111 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 15:33:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from panke.panke.de (anonymous232.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.232]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA27560; Wed, 6 May 1998 00:27:36 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by panke.panke.de (8.8.5/8.6.12) id XAA00507; Tue, 5 May 1998 23:16:20 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980505231620.27104@panke.de> Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 23:16:20 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: Wolfram Schneider , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Development Projects References: <199805041009.MAA00936@panke.panke.de> <199805041208.OAA06133@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: <199805041208.OAA06133@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Mon, May 04, 1998 at 02:08:43PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 1998-05-04 14:08:43 +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > The list of FreeBSD Development Projects growing. I'm sure there are > > many FreeBSD projects which are still not listed. If you miss your > > project please sent the name of the project and the URL to > > www@freebsd.org or to me. > > i really appreciate the effort in constructing this list. > > However, there are huge differences among the projects in this > list. Some are well established and have working and supported > piece of code (PAO, SMP, some multimedia stuff), some are in > development, some other look more like a wishlist and have been > around for years without any progress at all (in this category may > mention ports to Alpha and Sparc, Token Ring, maybe also documentation, > and some of the hacks available from my web page) There is currently one active FreeBSD/alpha committer. The FreeBSD/alpha and the FreeBSD/sparc web page get ~20 page visits/day due the link at /support.html Maybe we find a hacker who will improve the architecture ports. > In order to avoid confusion, i suggest to classify items depending > on their status (and the availability of working code or a clean > patch for 2.2.X or 3.0 is a useful metric that should not offend > anyone). I don't have the time to do that. -- Wolfram Schneider http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message