Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 09:20:14 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> To: committers@freebsd.org Cc: smp@freebsd.org Subject: SMPng effort with BSD/OS - the overall story Message-ID: <2982.961950014@localhost>
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First, as the guy who set up the recent "SMP seminar", let me just apologise right now for dropping the ball on one very significant item: I didn't have someone appointed "scribe" from the list of full-time employee types who went there and this resulted in an unfortunate delay in briefing those people who weren't in attendance. Greg Lehey did do some video taping of the event, but that was just something he did on his own and it will take him some time to figure out how to get it into a format which everyone else can use. Again, in retrospect, we should have arranged this more formally and I'll take full responsibility for blowing it there. Sorry. Jason Evans has just posted a fuller synopsis of the event to the freebsd-smp mailing list and will be issuing periodic updates as things progress. Speaking of Jason, I should also point out that the "SMP working group" who convened for this meeting did have the wisdom to appoint an overall manager for this effort (sorry for clapping the pointy-hair helmet on you, Jason) since it's a BIG JOB we're talking about here. Having a full-time person of Jason's caliber driving and organizing things for this effort is exactly what we need if we actually want to finish it and NOT do things like break -current for extended periods of time, something there has been a lot of fear expressed over in the last couple of days. Please rest assured that nobody has been issued a flame thrower and told to direct it at -current. The situation is quite the contrary and by appointing Jason "ringmaster" of the SMP effort, we hope to avoid a lot of that kind of pain. What he says goes with regard to this integration effort and NO SMP RELATED CODE ENTERS -CURRENT WITHOUT HIS APPROVAL! This will not be an ad-hack effort, it will be an organized project with some very big goals on its plate and Jason Evans has core's full support as its ring master. As far as we're concerned, it's up to Jason to make sure things proceed smoothly with the SMP merger process and up to him to take any corrective actions which may be necessary along the way. It's also up to him to make sure timely bulletins are issued to the rest of committers so that everyone is kept well up-to-date on its progress and given full opportunity to contribute to the effort. The group which met at Yahoo last week were not "the chosen few" who will dictate all aspects of how things go, they were simply the people who put their hands up when I called for volunteers to attend the event in the freebsd-smp list and SOME of the people who will be driving the effort. The only person to come out of that meeting with a funny hat was Jason, and he kind of had that forced on him anyway. :-) - Jordan [Speaking for core] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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