From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 30 10:21:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 139F237B422 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 10:21:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu ([24.12.197.197]) by femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010530172131.UTJC28543.femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com@math.missouri.edu> for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 10:21:31 -0700 Message-ID: <3B152C1A.B04C5F35@math.missouri.edu> Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 12:21:30 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should IPFilter be pulled from FreeBSD as well References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Tulloch wrote: > > If you take a look at the cvs commit logs e.g. > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet/ip_fil.h > > you'll notice its Darren himself who does virtually all the commits on the > ipf code in the FreeBSD tree, I'm going to assume he gave himself > permisson :) > > Andrew > I know it is a gruesome question, but what would happen if Darren was seriously disabled or killed in an accident or something? Actually, generally, what happens to software in the contrib directory if the vendor somehow becomes unable or unwilling to service it any longer? -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message