Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:49:10 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server Message-ID: <4EFDA536.4010101@zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <20111230090746.GA3992@lonesome.com> References: <4EF25468.9040204@gmail.com> <CAOjFWZ7%2Bx61QPB-cO5ppWwY-nCRFvs9P76H_SO%2BCSL41APLwsA@mail.gmail.com> <CADWvR2jVPkLrM686Xhk12U0poV7CCqB3LF_ZbTPTHFKjt%2BdP=g@mail.gmail.com> <4EF2C613.3020609@digsys.bg> <CADWvR2jQMcOrPEzU5Ug4TRp9hxvD6qOVTZYjqqozarA-%2B-DsQw@mail.gmail.com> <4EF3D68C.2060803@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20111223074706.1afe4d26@zelda.sugioarto.com> <4EF4474B.3050203@digsys.bg> <20111223114424.GA60815@freebsd.org> <4EF5E9FF.2020300@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20111230090746.GA3992@lonesome.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Am 12/30/11 10:07, schrieb Mark Linimon: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 04:04:31PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: >> There maybe serious reasons having the Linuxulator, i do not know. But >> if not, why spending rare developer resources on that? > > This is a classical misunderstanding of the FreeBSD development model. > > There is no "staff" standing around waiting for assignments, as with > a commercial company. When committers join the project, they usually > (almost always) already have a long list of things that they want to > work on. And then they go work on them. > > Neither the core team, nor the FreeBSD Foundation, "direct" the project > and its course of development. Some of the members of each do post > emails, or stand up in front of conferences, and say "you know, I think > it would be really neat if someone did xyz." Sometimes this leads to > results, sometimes not. > > As for the companies that have their own FreeBSD-derived products, > often their goals are tightly focused, e.g. "improve the number of > packets we can pass" or "support our specialized hardware". Some, > but not all, of the resultant work makes it back into FreeBSD. We > get to say "it would be really neat if ..."; and, in addition, point > to possible future minimization of merging and duplication of effort > as a way to save costs long-term. > > But with these exceptions, development is primarily driven from the > bottom-up (individual committers find something they are interested in > working on, and then go work on it), and not the top-down as in "real" > companies. This is the way the overwhelming majority (90+%?) of the > work on FreeBSD gets done. > > So, there's no one "assigned" the tasks of closing PRs, nor working on > coordinating code with the other BSDs, nor working on the Linuxolator, > nor even supporting high-performance computing. > > It's a cooperative anarchy, not a hierarchy. > > mcl By no maen is this what I said or intended to say. oliver [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJO/aU2AAoJEOgBcD7A/5N8WMYIAM/NQj1jolKrUBvNlQqLiWIn FCbkP3OoEZxEZ0h+g3Rvnw2HueHiH5NFPUGj5Aegel4RvhQzSefn8bWkX2xFUO6O bEQ21Zom0hjM2/FmJHAple8mbitb2Ev4pCSltaqYBImrXZPD7c90c34F6IH99SVa rjpFfd4vCAnZi7CFVbb0J7FfU6iKddNMxNzJDAlXLHn9R0loEsy8coID97Vd0f28 GDlJDYK1Rv0GOEfkGONgw3YrmlU5hL1kk7BPwei1hhWw1Jk65TF83EEcG63XvTJi AcmWE5GgHfJWCMPkEQjKkKgIaRF0kKenO0iIHwzsWFEvhV6FLKtOtIO7pAKdP+o= =bJIq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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