From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 9 00:29:52 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id AAA03865 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 00:29:52 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA03859 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 00:29:52 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA15298; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 00:24:32 -0800 To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" cc: Wilko Bulte , FreeBSD hackers list , vak@cronyx.msk.su Subject: Re: Using seagate driver with Future Domain 950: :-( In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Feb 95 21:47:41 EST." Date: Thu, 09 Feb 1995 00:24:29 -0800 Message-ID: <15297.792318269@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > so what's an accountant. sounds like a test engineer is > required...nothing gets into the distribution tree till after testing by > a couple of people. including some serious hammering on the code. Let me elaborate: We truly need someone with an accountant's heart (or better yet, an administrative assistant's) to take down all the details of who has what and basically keep a monster rolodex (or rolodex analog) from hell that lists each and every person who's ever contacted us and represents some resource - a commercial contact, a piece of hardware to test, a good beta-tester's personality, whatever! Something that enables somebody like me, who's totally inept at proper bookkeeping, to then come along and say to that person "Person, I need to put together a BETA test team. Please find me all the people in your little database who have either the "nit-picking pedant" or "owns unusual hardware (with detail)" attributes set! Ah yes, thank you.. Hmmmm.. My, what an interesting statistical correlation - 86% of the people in this list have *both* attributes set!" :-) Anyway, this AA type person would also keep a file of contacts that should be kept alive and remind me to call them every once in awhile ("Hey, Bernie! How's it hangin', bro? Yeah? Good! Really! With a pitchfork, eh? Geeze, that's rough! Well, don't worry, you'll find another one. So, uh... I was just wondering. How's that Gronking Industries CDROM controller driver of yours coming?"). And so forth. Sigh.. Basically, I think the project needs a secretary! Perhaps before too much time goes by, we'll even be able to hire one. Wouldn't that be nice! :) Jordan