From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 26 23:31: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.gnf.org (relay.gnf.org [208.44.31.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ED2537B400 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 23:30:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gnf.org (smtp.gnf.org [10.0.0.11]) by relay.gnf.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1R7Umw30128; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 23:30:58 -0800 Received: by mail.gnf.org (Postfix, from userid 888) id 2224C11E512; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 23:28:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.gnf.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D9BF11A572; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 23:28:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 23:28:25 -0800 (PST) From: Gordon Tetlow To: Kevin Way Cc: Sheldon Hearn , Subject: Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project In-Reply-To: <20020227060049.D91597@bean.overtone.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Kevin Way wrote: > * Sheldon Hearn [27-02-02 03:58]: > > > At this point, I'm very willing to help anybody who is doing the > > > main development, with either coding or testing, but I have no > > > interest being a lead developer on the project. > > > > Have you been in contact with Gordon Tetlow to see how he's faring? > > No, I haven't heard from Gordon since October, or so. Last I heard, he > was taking a different approach than me, converting the FreeBSD scripts > to the NetBSD format, so there was very little overlap between our > efforts, despite similar progress and goals. I don't know if he > quietly finished his efforts, without a press release or if they became > shelfware. The latter, work became terribly hectic. And after a fair amount of discussion on -arch and that irc channel, people seemed to believe that we should keep as close to NetBSD's scripts as we could to keep the diffs down between them. From that, maybe we should start with Kevin's base and work from there. I'd be more than happy to contribute what little I've done (I got it booting up to network initialization). -gordon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message