From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 13 11:00:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B0C516A5A5 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:00:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91D7443D2D for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:00:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0DIwNUd030454; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:58:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from localhost (robert@localhost)i0DIwMfc030451; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:58:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:58:22 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Rahul Siddharthan In-Reply-To: <20040113183555.GA7902@online.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: des@des.no cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Colin Percival Subject: Re: Status reports - why not regularly? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:00:46 -0000 On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > You can't expect them to take the initiative in submitting information > > for the status reports. Experience shows that they will be > > enthusiastic about your undertaking for about three minutes and then > > forget about it. > > > > You can however expect them to answer questions about their work if > > you can't figure things out on your own. > > And having obtained the answers, may I suggest a site to post them at: > kerneltrap.org. > > This, together with lwn.net, is one of the most informative sites about > fresh developments in the linux kernel; but kerneltrap.org also covers > the BSDs. So no need to reinvent the wheel; if the FreeBSD > contributions to kerneltrap can be increased just a bit, it would be a > very useful archive (in fact it already is). I've been very impressed/pleased with kerneltrap's coverage of FreeBSD. We ought to do a better job of submitting stuff to them -- it looked like a lot of the articles were the result of watching hackers, so one thing we could do is encourage developers to send occasional "here's what's going on with " to hackers/current@. For example, I'd love to see an NDIS summary post to both lists explaining where things stand so it gets picked up as an article. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research