From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jun 23 23:55: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7C6937BB69; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 23:55:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA58174; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 00:54:54 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id AAA02110; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 00:53:13 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200006240653.AAA02110@harmony.village.org> To: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Cc: Nik Clayton , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, papowell@astart.com In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jun 2000 13:31:57 EDT." References: <20000621221636.A4137@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 00:53:13 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Garance A Drosihn writes: : Given that it is like pulling teeth to get anyone to add an : update to our current version of lpr, I suppose this is a : good thing. I have written multiple updates to freebsd's : lpr over the past year and a half, and I think I am averaging : about six months between the time I send in a patch and the : time it is applied. In general, it takes me five times more : work to get someone to apply a patch than it takes me to write : the damn patch in the first place. Mind you, I did have one : patch that was applied within about 24 hours of writing it, so : the average is even more amazing. I'm partially to blame for that. I find lpr/lpd hard to audit and changes to it hard to ensure verify. This is more a reflection of lpr/lpd and not on Garance. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message