Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 00:08:56 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Cc: thompson@squirrel.tgsoft.com (mark thompson) Subject: Re: Code maintenance Message-ID: <19970403000856.EU42233@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <19970402205513.11072.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com>; from mark thompson on Apr 2, 1997 20:55:13 -0000 References: <19970402205513.11072.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com>
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As mark thompson wrote: > > Yes, see the ft(4) and aic(4) drivers for two good examples. Both > > sorely lack a maintainer, and nobody seems to be interested in doing > > this job. > > Hmmm.... i have volunteered before to maintain ft, since tapes are kind Hmm, i can't muchly remember your name, nor having seen any offer to maintain ft(4). If you're serious about this, go ahead! > of a (twisted) specialty of mine. My only request is that someone donate > the drives to test on, since i don't use QIC format any more. Chuck Robey once contributed his old Colorado tape to the project, which is currently sitting in my scratchbox. I happily send it to you, but please understand that i'd like to see some sort of, well not quite `guarantee', but at least promise, that you're serious about this. Remember, there have been three maintainers of this code before who all went off-ship since. This is an old Colorado QIC-40 drive. I've also got a supposedly broken QIC-80 one, but i'm totally uncertain about its status. > My offer to help kind of got blown off. By whom? Certainly not by me. Nor can i remember that you ever wrote a mail to the core team applying for this job, at least not during the time i've been a member of that team (which must go into its 2nd anniversary anytime soon). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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