Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:55:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: Headsup! KSE believers should show up! Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0108281055200.8493-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <p05101014b7b0a0608824@[128.113.24.47]>
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Well, I for one can test it on an alpha (I'm borrowing from chuckr@freebsd.org) as soon as my DSL gets installed ;-) Ken On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 5:09 PM -0700 8/27/01, Darryl Okahata wrote: > > Is there some reason why KSE couldn't be integrated > >ASAP *AFTER* 5.0 is released? > > > >[ Personally, I'd like to see it in 5.0, but, with all the qualms that > > people seem to have, I'm curious as to why it can't be integrated > > immediately after 5.0 is cut? This way, Julian's MFCs are reduced, > > and it gives people more time to pound on KSE. ] > > In the interests of progress, let us assume for the moment that most > of the qualms about KSE could be addressed by more testing of it, > and a little more work for non-Intel platforms. > > Based on that assumption, anyone who is eager for KSE should realize > that NOW is the time to step forward and help out with it. If we > can get a reasonable amount of testing done in the next two or three > weeks, then maybe we could get KSE committed for "5.0", and also > get "5.0" released when we expected to release it. > > I think this would be the ideal outcome. If you have any energy to > spare right now, let's put that energy towards the ideal outcome. > But NOW is the time to help out, not in late October or November. > > I have changed the subject for this message, because I am hoping > that a more positive subject might get a more positive result. > Anyone who does think KSE is worth having for 5.0, should step up > and provide Julian with the help needed to address the legitimate > concerns which have been mentioned. Julian does not need people > descending into a flame-war, he needs people to show up and help out. > > -- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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