From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 13 05:09:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C71AF16A4CE for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 05:09:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from lvlworld.com (dsl-38.226.240.220.dsl.comindico.com.au [220.240.226.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 18E0D43D45 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 05:09:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tigger@onemoremonkey.com) Received: (qmail 70123 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2004 13:10:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lvlworld.com) (192.168.1.120) by eeeor.goo with SMTP; 13 Jan 2004 13:10:45 -0000 Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 00:11:37 +1100 From: Tig To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040114001137.5ce8983b@piglet.goo> In-Reply-To: <1073998390.18384.19.camel@kaiser.sig11.org> References: <20040113093903.GA84055@mimoza.pantel.net> <1073998390.18384.19.camel@kaiser.sig11.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.816362, version=0.15.13.1 Subject: Re: Status reports - why not regularly? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:09:48 -0000 On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:53:10 +0100 Matteo Riondato wrote: > > Just to give my own opinion: > For normal -CURRENT user who haven't a real in-depth knowledge of the > system, is not easy to understand what every single commit message > means, especially those in regard to difficul topics such as VM > development or network device drivers development. That's probably why > nobody has volunteered to write a Status Report. It (the Status > Report) should be a work both of users _and_ developers. > These are my 0.2 euro > Best Regards > -- > Rionda aka Matteo Riondato > G.U.F.I Staff Member (http://www.gufi.org) > BSD-FAQ-it Main Developer (http://www.gufi.org/~rionda) > GPG key at: http://www.riondabsd.net/riondagpg.asc > Sent from: kaiser.sig11.org running FreeBSD-5.2-CURRENT > I do not agree with this statement or approch. Something like; "grog continues working on Vinum with a few patches commited from the public" Is much better than nothing at all and in most cases is all that is required. The developers will be keen to see that work is continuing, the people most interested in Vinum will (more than likely) will already be aware of what was changed/commit and the general public (like me) will be happy to see that Vinum is not rotting away. All that is required is someone (or some people) with the time to put it together. -Tig