From owner-cvs-all Thu Sep 7 10:51: 2 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B93FB37B423; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 10:50:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13X5p5-000BUg-00; Thu, 07 Sep 2000 19:50:51 +0200 Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 19:50:50 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Nik Clayton Cc: Warner Losh , "David E. O'Brien" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/common boot.c module.c src/sys/boot/forth loader.conf src/sys/conf Makefile.alpha Makefile.i386 Makefile.pc98 kmod.mk src/share/mk bsd.own.mk Message-ID: <20000907195050.A44141@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000906094918.A5184@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <200009052237.PAA73730@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000906094918.A5184@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <200009061729.LAA69925@harmony.village.org> <20000907131105.A811@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000907131105.A811@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:11:05PM +0100 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu 2000-09-07 (13:11), Nik Clayton wrote: > On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:29:30AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > : Where was this change discussed? I'm on -arch, -current, and -hackers, > > : and don't recall seeing anything like this come by. > > > > I recall a meeting at FreeBSDCon 1999 where David O'Brien, myself, > > Greg Lehey, Mike Smith and a couple other people talked about this as > > the long term design goal. > I'm hearing an increasing number of comments from people that a lot of > the FreeBSD development work is done behind closed doors. Not only does > this make it difficult for people to contribute to the initial work, it > also makes it difficult for people to carry on the work. For example, > the libh stuff, and the work that's being done in IA-64. libh is most certainly not being done behind anyone's back (that is, if it's being done at all). Subscribe to freebsd-libh, and you can see what (very very little at the moment) is happening. I've pointed at least two people on the mailing list to this. Admittedly we need a better projects page, though. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message