From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 15 01:26:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA02490 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 01:26:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA02476; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 08:26:10 GMT (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA14947; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 01:26:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: "Matthew N. Dodd" cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , committers@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Come on guys, close a PR or two, will ya ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Apr 1998 18:38:29 EDT." Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 01:26:30 -0700 Message-ID: <14943.892628790@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Isn't it about time the ports project took on a life of its own? Not that It already has done exactly that, and some time ago. That's still no reason to duplicate all the infrastructure (like GNATS) for it since that'd otherwise mean that somebody on the ports team would have to go reimplement all that stuff for their "truly separate" project. I also think that every attempt to unify efforts with the other *BSDs has already been made and pushing the ports folks further away from FreeBSD isn't going to help. The problem with getting them to work with us isn't one of perception ("we'd only be helping those evil FreeBSD folks") but time - the volunteers just don't have enough of it available to do a more thorough job of integration. Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message