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Date:      Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:28:42 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD [VOTE]
Message-ID:  <20011213112842.C3448@monorchid.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011212094310.13502.qmail@web21106.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20011212172021.L82733@monorchid.lemis.com> <20011212094310.13502.qmail@web21106.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Wednesday, 12 December 2001 at  1:43:10 -0800, Hiten Pandya wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as i said also before, my intentions were never to cause havoc on
> the mailing list. :-)
>
> In simple terms, what i am saying is, the people who would like to
> port the JFS file system, should put a +1 in their next message and
> -1 if they dont like to port JFS.
>
> Then, i will count the votes, and if +1 outweighs -1, then i will
> try to gether developers who can help me in this task, and try to
> finish it by Sept. 2002.
>
> BUT, if -1 outweighs +1, then i will cancel the project and live it
> for my spare time, and will not go around asking everyone about
> it...
>
> OR, another way of doing this would be to, just try and get this JFS
> porting done by people who would like to do it (including me), and
> then put it on the FreeBSD site.

This is the traditional way to do it.  You don't need anybody's
permission :-)  You can also be sure that you won't get many replies
either way, and those you get may not be representative of the project
as a whole.

"Just Do It".

Greg
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