From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 21 16:18:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA29047 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:18:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA29027 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:18:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id BAA25554 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 01:17:24 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id BAA13065 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 01:17:24 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id AAA23276 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 00:23:57 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611212323.AAA23276@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: the way things are going (Was: Who needs Perl?) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 00:23:57 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199611212141.OAA12035@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Nov 21, 96 02:41:32 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Nate Williams wrote: [Excellent explanation deleted, i fully agree with Nate here.] > That's how things work around here. You don't get 'blessings' or > 'permission' to do something, you do it and then find an advocate to run > with it. After the advocate is happy with your work (or too overloaded > to do it himself), you become a committer and then are one of the > 'blessed/cursed' who are responsible for the whole darn mess. Well, but you forgot: that's exactly the point where the real work begins... ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)