From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 28 11:21:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay01.chello.nl (smtp.chello.nl [212.83.68.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6493D37BB6F; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:21:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@chello.nl) Received: from chello.nl ([213.46.78.184]) by relay01.chello.nl (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 2ee4e7c625482f2f2a1950a80f6c8d58) with ESMTP id <20000628182208.FDKM159.relay01@chello.nl>; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 20:22:08 +0200 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by chello.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA01296; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 20:21:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 20:21:09 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Dan Moschuk Cc: Nik Clayton , Jun Kuriyama , doc@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT Message-ID: <20000628202109.E1136@freebie.wbnet> Reply-To: wilko@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000625195803.G470@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <7mvgyw4u04.wl@waterblue.imgsrc.co.jp> <20000626115008.B462@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <20000628134936.A524@spirit.jaded.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000628134936.A524@spirit.jaded.net>; from dan@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 01:49:36PM -0400 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 01:49:36PM -0400, Dan Moschuk wrote: > > | I disagree. We're not Linux, where people can throw in code without thought > | to the wider consequences -- one of the commitments you should make (that's > | a generic "you" there, not you specifically) as a FreeBSD committer is to > | maintain the documentation that's affected by your changes. A look at > | HARDWARE.TXT shows that (with a few notable exceptions) the FreeBSD Developer > | Community at large is *not* keeping it up to date. > > Perhaps it would be a good idea to assign someone the task of just maintaing > the HARDWARE.TXT file, rather than expecting all developers to keep > documentation up to date? That is what I am currently doing (at least trying to.. ;-) for FreeBSD/alpha. But considering that the alpha community is considerably smaller this might be a problem in the much bigger x86 world. -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org "Do, or do not. There is no try" wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl Yoda - The Empire Strikes Back To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message