Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 22:20:11 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Jo Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fast releases demand binary updates.. (Was: Release schedule for 2006 ) Message-ID: <200601062220.13417.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20060106112329.GG54324@svcolo.com> References: <43A266E5.3080103@samsco.org> <200601061120.14707.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20060106112329.GG54324@svcolo.com>
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--nextPart17759608.RyVHtf6x3N Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 21:53, Jo Rhett wrote: > > you mean? Are you claiming someone from (or claiming to be from core) > > said "Don't do this, we won't allow it"? If so, can you supply proof? > > I used to write a lot of patches to freebsd. I used to submit a lot of b= ug > reports. I've found over the years that unless you have gotten > pre-agreement from others about the nature of the patch, or agreement to > focus on the problem, neither one amounts to a hill of beans. Installati= on > problems that existed in 4.4 are still alive and well in the 6.0 installe= r, > for example. <shrugs> That is not my experience. > How FreeBSD "works" is by getting someone in the core team to care about > the issue. No amount of problem reports, patches or code will generate > even a millimeter of movement otherwise. You are mistaking core@ for developers@.. Like I've said before, core is largely irrelevant in FreeBSD when it comes = to=20 deciding what stuff gets added. > I've written far too much code for various freebsd problems, and it has > always been ignored. Not rejected, ignored. Unless someone with commit > rights thinks it's a good idea, writing code for freebsd is a waste of > time. Yes.. and those people AREN'T CORE. Please, please stop confusing your term= s,=20 it makes the discussion much harder than it needs to be. You ARE right if what you mean is that "We need interested committers to he= lp=20 thrash out a system for making upgrades simpler". I imagine there are a few committers interested, but I'd say you need to as= k=20 the right way first.. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart17759608.RyVHtf6x3N Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDvll15ZPcIHs/zowRAmo8AJ9ocN73YZijfX5s6c0b5FL4AhIKgwCeIL4j oC06ZOPLwTvNrCdlTzdm/i8= =hJ81 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart17759608.RyVHtf6x3N--
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