From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 25 14:00:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9168A16A480 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:00:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77B6A13C468 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:00:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAC0746B0F; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:00:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:00:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: bazzoola In-Reply-To: <2C14CF79-F269-4622-9E99-89BC20D73F59@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20080125135906.W15118@fledge.watson.org> References: <2C14CF79-F269-4622-9E99-89BC20D73F59@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Noise ratio on -CURRENT has increased recently X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:00:06 -0000 On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, bazzoola wrote: > I come from an academic background and I have been reading and enjoying > -CURRENT for years I use it to learn and adapt new ideas in my research. I > just wanted to say that recently, I noticed that the noise ratio here has > increased more than 'the usual' and it really saddens me to see intelligent > and very active developers throwing bricks at each other on this public > list. > > I have always liked this educated and kind community of FreeBSD and I hope > it remains like that. I agree, and have had similar worries. I expect a moderate amount of it is because a lot of people are sitting around twiddling their thumbs waiting for 7.0 to ship so they can get "back to business" with the pent-up works in progress. Hopefully that will be remedied shortly. :-) Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge