Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 23:28:32 -0400 From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: attilio@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..] Message-ID: <CACqU3MU-WyNFf5UZGx15m_HWBx_6W272qkfqHHJ8G7v%2BJCK2Sw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <612DA8A3-121E-4E72-9E5B-F3CBA9DEB7F7@bsdimp.com> References: <CACqU3MUh1XPScRHNc-ivOYLmbG0_UqpwBNWeoPA84uSOESH_bg@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-FndCHxpTfc%2Bb5zgiX2NheaQN1LcJXBRubef4_GAYCy_pb2g@mail.gmail.com> <CACqU3MWo=ieaduuwZDF6SfzUUS5y1qzP5e2Ddg6Aphnz_O2PJw@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-FndCDpD3rnQFwiOSGofP9cPCxC5Zo%2BPLfxALY8pnE=2HQMA@mail.gmail.com> <CACqU3MW2JEtDK0Ngdf_Br6D%2BVvdU1B9LmN0fm0F9=bG0f2iW4Q@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmomhHxG8t9Sw7de%2BzUnbz0O5GSY4ifpHFtCb9JS_zS0rBA@mail.gmail.com> <CACqU3MUKGcy8rNz0FcZLVat49BmRLD3hVKX%2BOXxkzwRDugKtAw@mail.gmail.com> <612DA8A3-121E-4E72-9E5B-F3CBA9DEB7F7@bsdimp.com>
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Hi, On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > On Aug 1, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> Any interested party is very welcome to approach a developer and get >>> added to the developer summits. Plenty of the people at the most >>> recent developer summit weren't @freebsd.org committers - we had >>> plenty of representation from companies using FreeBSD. >>> >>> If you want to participate, just ask a friendly developer who is going >>> to the developer summit to sponsor you in going. You're pleasant in >>> person, so I'd have no problem sponsoring you if I am going to an >>> event. :) >>> >> I have a very deep, quasi-philosophical, trouble/problem with that >> whole idea of sponsor-requirement to attend a such meeting. There is >> just something which does not feel right about it. From my point of >> view, this is a matter of common sense, focus is gonna be very narrow >> and deeply technical. Attendee should go there only if they think they >> will give positive feedback. As for myself, I would not attend a >> developer meeting on the fiber-channel over infiniband optimization, >> but would attend a developer meeting on next-generation mbuf. >> >> Now, maybe I'll just push the door of some developer meeting I'd be >> interested in during next BSDCan, and see what happen :-) The outcome >> might be interesting to study in a social interaction, prisoner >> dilemma related, point-of-view. > > Given how ridiculously easy it is to get a proper invite, there's not need to be a jerk just to prove an obscure philosophical point about attendance. There's plenty of time to do that over the technical points being discussed. > Let me explain my thoughts: I do not recognize the committers legitimacy to give such invite, and to some extend, I do not recognize committers self-given legitimacy altogether. This do not mean I'd praised a structure-less project; quite the opposite actually. Starting from that, I will certainly not defer to anybody to request such invite or commit bit. Feel free to kick me out of the meeting room if you want to; I would have proved my point. Now, if invites are so easy to get, just get rid of it. It's a worthless, cumbersome item. - Arnaud ps: please, do not get me wrong, I would apply this policy to anybody who propose to help.
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