From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 11 02:17:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA15630 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 02:17:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA15625 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 02:17:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0taK4R-0003w3C; Thu, 11 Jan 96 02:17 PST Received: from localhost.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA00291; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 11:17:21 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: critter.tfs.com: Host localhost.tfs.com didn't use HELO protocol To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers), StevenR362@aol.com Subject: Re: HELP: Cyclades Drivers In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jan 1996 10:28:37 +0100." <199601110928.KAA11226@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 11:17:20 +0100 Message-ID: <289.821355440@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Our resources aren't infinite. Authors who are willing to actively > maintain their code are always welcome. Otherwise, somebody of the > existing commiters must take responsibility for the code, and to the > best of my knowledge, all of them are already overloaded enough by > now. (There's an even worse third scenario: the code becomes > orphaned, and remains in ugly shape while the system is evolving. See > the msdosfs code, or the floppy tape driver. We are not keen to get > more orphans.) We may actually have to tighten this up a bit, since this is an increasing problem :-( -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.