From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 18 02:40:53 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EED841065675 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:40:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5DC98FC1F for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:40:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from julian-mac.elischer.org (c-67-180-24-15.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.24.15]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q0I2em7x098357 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:40:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <4F16316F.507@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:41:51 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.25) Gecko/20111213 Thunderbird/3.1.17 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ian Lepore References: <4F15C44F.1030208@freebsd.org> <1326836797.1669.234.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <4F16019F.2060300@FreeBSD.org> <1326843399.1669.249.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> In-Reply-To: <1326843399.1669.249.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon Subject: Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:40:53 -0000 On 1/17/12 3:36 PM, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 01:17 +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> on 17/01/2012 23:46 Ian Lepore said the following: >>> Now, before we're even really completely up and running on 8.2 at work, >>> 9.0 hits the street, and developers have moved on to working in the 10.0 >>> world. What are the chances that any of the patches I've submitted for >>> bugs we fixed in 8.x are ever going to get commited now that 8 is well >>> on its way to becoming ancient history in developers' minds? >> My opinion is that this will have more to do with your approach to pushing the >> patches (and your persistence) rather than with anything else. As long as >> stable/8 is still a supported branch or the bugs are reproducible in any of the >> supported branches. > Well I submitted a sort of random sample of the patches we're > maintaining at work, 11 of them as formal PRs and 2 posted to the lists > here recently. So far two have been committed (the most important one > and the most trivial one, oddly enough). I'm not sure just how pushy > one is supposed to be, I don't want to be a jerk. Not to mention that I > wouldn't know who to push. That's actually why I'm now being active on > the mailing lists, I figured maybe patches will be more accepted from > someone the commiters know rather than just as code out of the blue > attached to a PR. you are supposed to be as pushy as you need to be.. If you really want your patches in I'd suggest teh following method: 1/ post a summary email explaining all teh bugs and patches 2/ see if anyone takes them up 3/ for the remaining problems, find the names of developers who have committed to that code and contact them asking for their assistance. 4/ report back here ;-) > I think it would be great if there were some developers (a team, maybe > something not quite that formal) who concentrated on maintenance of > older code for the user base who needs it. I'd be happy to contribute > to that effort, both on my own time, and I have a commitment from > management at work to allow me a certain amount of billable work hours > to interface with the FreeBSD community, especially in terms of getting > our work contributed back to the project (both to help the project, and > to help us upgrade more easily in the future). > > I have no idea if there are enough developers who'd be interested in > such a concept to make it work, co-op or otherwise. But I like the fact > that users and developers are talking about their various needs and > concerns without any degeneration into flame wars. It's cool that most > of the focus here is centered on how to make things better for everyone. > > -- Ian > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >