From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 11 10:16:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from kweetal.tue.nl (kweetal.tue.nl [131.155.2.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FC3837BCA9 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 10:16:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcov@toad.stack.nl) Received: from hermes.tue.nl [131.155.2.46] by kweetal.tue.nl (8.9.3) for id TAA25424 (ESMTP); Sat, 11 Mar 2000 19:16:03 +0100 (MET) Received: from deathstar (n156.dial.tue.nl [131.155.209.155]) by hermes.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEFFD2E804 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 19:16:01 +0100 (CET) From: "Marco van de Voort" To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 19:13:59 +0100 Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD dead ? References: <38C960E2.3D58BD4B@cybercable.fr> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12b) Message-Id: <20000311181601.BEFFD2E804@hermes.tue.nl> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Then, what are the benefits for both parties ? > > > > For the FreeBSD project : > > - many more supported platforms (Sparc, PowerPC, Arm ?) Merced? ......... > definately. I'm not sure if that is a good thing if it is pursued by the core team, at least not for impopular or older targets. > Access to the developer pool ? Sure, and with that accesss to internal maillists (if they exist), cc's of bugreports etc. Very important point I think. Generating quality feedback is always a problem, and now the FreeBSD developpers will provide their own quality feedback, AND distille the high quality feedback from the large volume of feedback from news and email. Marco van de Voort (MarcoV@Stack.nl) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message