Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:14:30 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: "Jeffrey S. Sharp" <jss@subatomix.com> Cc: small@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: On the future of freebsd-small Message-ID: <200007251914.MAA02041@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007251047020.8871-100000@lepton.subatomix.com> from "Jeffrey S. Sharp" at "Jul 25, 2000 12:47:12 pm"
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Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote: > Well, it appears that many people would like some radical change to our > group in order fire up some genuine progress and keep small FreeBSD from > dying. There seems to be a lot of support for establishing some formal > organization. I suggest we elect, as Albert said, a 'Captain'. I have to agree with Warner on this. What you really want to do is use www.freebsd.org/~small/ or some such. In fact, www.FreeBSD.org/~picobsd/ already exists. It could probably do with some cleanup, but it is already there. I'm sure that if you wanted to register picobsd.org and point it to there, core would have no problem with that, although you might want to ask first before spending the $$$ to get the domain name. Also, as Warner said, what picoBSD really needs is just a MAINTAINER. You don't need to elect a MAINTAINER. A MAINTAINER is whoever happens to spend their time in a certain area of the code. For example, with the exception of the forth stuff, I am about the only person who commits to src/sys/boot/i386 nowadays. Although only a couple of modules actually list me as the maintainer, I've ended up as the de facto maintainer for the x86 bootstrap as a result. That is how things work in this project, by people stepping up and getting work done. Also, as Jerry Hicks said, we probably need to integrate picoBSD into make release so that the daily snapshots build it. This combined with a little poking of committers when the snapshots fail will help a lot in keeping pico from getting left behind. As long as you end up with a non-interactive build process I can call from make (i.e., either a script or a makefile), I'm willing to work on this end once you have settled on a build process. I'd also like to move the actual installation floppies into the picoBSD area eventually as well. > =============================== > Jeffrey S. Sharp (XorAxAx) > jss@subatomix.com -- John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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