From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 5 9:18:32 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6734937B405; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:18:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57B3343F75; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:18:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.12.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h15HITOs009188; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 19:18:29 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id h15HITwO009185; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 19:18:29 +0200 (EET) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 19:18:29 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object In-Reply-To: <20030205021623.GP12525@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: <20030205191305.M43637-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > This is a valid viewpoint. I've been wondering for some time how we > could do this. You can contribute other things than code to the > source tree, of course, such as documentation. But I don't see a good > way to include systems administrators (except in exactly that function > within the project, and opportunities there are limited). We've also > had problems with advocacy: some advocates are somewhat extreme, and > we're concerned they're doing the project more harm than good. If you > can come up with some good suggestions, we'd like to see them (at the > risk of Yet Another Bike Shed). > It might be possible to make use of them (at least ones who are sufficently good at scripting and making systems fall over) to advance the regresion and stress test parts, both in creation and having it be regularily run. As they derive direct benefits from it they also have a reason/excuse to spend some time and resources on it > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message