From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 3 03:07:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA22246 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 03:07:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de [194.233.237.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA22226; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 03:06:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cracauer@gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (8.8.8/8.7.3) id MAA20640; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 12:06:44 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980903120643.A20537@cons.org> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 12:06:43 +0200 From: BSD User Group Hamburg To: freebsd-core@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: An Open Letter To The FreeBSD Core Team Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG An Open Letter To The FreeBSD Core Team --------------------------------------- Because of several events happened during the last 6 months we - the BSD Users Group Hamburg - are concerned about the continuing future success of the FreeBSD operating system. Our concerns are technical as well as organizational in nature and they are in detail: We see a linuxization of FreeBSD happen. FreeBSD development seems to become event-driven rather than driven by careful design. Rather than providing technical arguments, people try to gain influence by formal status. While we believe that a very good technical background is required for being a core team member, we feel that communicational and organizational management skills are a conditio sine qua non. While being a wise core team member is an invaluable contribution, worthful contributions can be supplied along other ways as well. Almost no substantial technical discussion takes place anymore on -hackers; some of the core team members doing architectural work in the deeper kernel areas seem not even being subscribed anymore. No other adequate place for such discussions seems to exist. We feel that the core team neither takes nor defends a clear technical position. Because of this, several people seem to run against rubber walls. Source code policy is not consistent. We are very upset about persons leaving and the circumstances which led to their leave and which accompanied it. Our point is that currently no clear direction is set (or at least not visible to anyone outside core) and that random events cause damage in all directions and trigger people to leave. We fear that the current situation will drive away as many people as possible directions exist. System organizing decisions are in any case better than to thermalize and being killed by entropy. We ask the core team to reconsider what they think the purpose of the core team is, and what the best way is to achieve it. The Founders of the BSD User Group Hamburg Stefan Bethke Martin Cracauer Lars Gerhard Kuehl Hellmuth Michaelis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message