From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 10 09:48:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA29071 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 09:48:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roguetrader.com (brandon@cold.org [206.81.134.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA29066 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 09:48:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (brandon@localhost) by roguetrader.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA02936 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 10:50:27 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 10:50:27 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie To: freebsd-hackers@freeBSD.org Subject: why bother submitting anything (via send-pr) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm debating with myself why I should bother submitting anything with send-pr anymore. It seems that unless it happens to be a pet project of one of the developers, it will pretty much be ignored and never committed. I have two submissions pending SOME response (even a 'no, we dont want it' would be appreciated)--but nothing. The first is a rewrite of the libcrypt, and the second is 'doconfig' (a wrap of the kernel build process, based off Digital Unix'es doconfig). Its been so long since I've sent these in that I've lost the send-pr id for them (altho I could dig them up again). Basically, what i'm wondering (as a disgruntled person wanting to help but seeming to be ignored) is why isn't there somebody simply responsible for non-developer submissions? So far it seems that the way things work around here is if a developer takes interest in it, it'll move forward, otherwise too bad, mebbe one of the other *BSD systems will like it. Now, to retract a touch, I was in contact with Mark Murray (mark@grondar.za) about the libcrypt rewrite--but I think he had some hardware problems and either lost interest or isn't able to do much at the moment (I havn't had any responses back from him). -Brandon Gillespie