Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:11:55 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: karl@mcs.net, jak@cetlink.net, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. Message-ID: <199803042111.QAA02487@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <5532.889026676@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Mar 4, 98 04:51:16 pm"
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Poul-Henning Kamp said: > > >I understand that Jordan and the rest of the core team have their own > >priorities. They sometimes don't mesh with mine. Ok, good and well. I > >work around what I can, patch around what I can't work around, and remain > >a few rev levels back if necessary in certain areas. That level of choice > >is one of the nicities of a free operating system environment with source > >code in a CVS tree. > > > >But for me to justify shaking loose the money on the tree, I need to be able > >to show benefit. That's just business - its not personal in any way. > > Karl, > > You're clearly into the category here, where you should consider paying > somebody to fix the problems which plague your machines. Remember that > many of us do not posses the needed setups to reproduce the problems > reported in the NFS area. > Also, it is a matter of time allocation. For example, my employer gets first-dibs on my time, and their problems get fixed with all of my attention. Project wide-goals get lower priority, not because I don't want to do/fix them, but I just don't have time. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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