Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:58:33 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Cc: grog@lemis.com, rwatson@FreeBSD.org, imp@harmony.village.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Core's function (was: The Project and onward [was: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_output.c]) Message-ID: <11043.984520713@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Mar 2001 13:43:42 PST." <20010313134342A.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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In message <20010313134342A.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, Jordan Hubbard writes: >> I have no small amount of faith in what our volounteers can do, but >> having studied my history, I know that most if not all instances of >> a mass-effort has been directed by one or a very few persons who have >> set a goal, waved a flag and issued the battlecry... > >I actually agree, I just see no reason why those few flag-waving >individuals need to come exclusively from core (or as a side-effect of >some sort of core mandate) at all. The problem is, some kinds of flag-waving people expect from core. A lot of people have the perception that they need cores nod to start things "offcially". Take projects.freebsd.org as an example. A lot of people do not have the courage to stand forward alone and wave the flag, but given even a modest investment of encouragement and interest they will. Remember how we got our execellent postmaster ? We asked if anybody wanted to do that. I'm sure that if core wants a secretary, actually asking if there is anybody who would want to do that task on the specified conditions would get you somebody. Of course you wont see a lot of hands if you ask for somebody to implement "clustering", but if you ask for a team if FAQ writers, I'm sure we can find them. You want a more dynamic homepage ? Ask for somebody to do it instead of expecting already busy committers to do so... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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