Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 09:04:45 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De, brandon@roguetrader.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why bother submitting anything (via send-pr) Message-ID: <199708110704.JAA01406@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <199708102356.RAA27563@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Aug 10, 97 05:56:47 pm"
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> > The PRs seem to be orphaned since Mike Pritchard left the FreeBSD > > project in May 1997. We submitters who are not committers have a > > *very* hard time getting any feedback. > > This is the main problem, and Mike didn't actually leave the project so > much as disappeared from the face of the earth. Since no warning was > given, and that people often 'go away' on volunteer projects it wasn't > considered a bad thing until all attempts to contact him were > un-successful. > > > Jordan mentioned that he's going to hire developers for porting > > the OS to another architecture. (He left open which architecture.) > > I conclude from this, the desertion of the PRs and the discussion > > about current ports versus stable ports that the FreeBSD project > > is switching to a commercial company that does not depend on > > volunteers any more in the long run. > > Your conclusions are wrong. Jordan is simply 'paying' for a port to This is, what I wanted to read :-) Wolfgang
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