Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 01:25:51 -0700 From: "Albert Yang" <albert@achtung.com> To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: The heart of the problem Message-ID: <397CEC9F.27760.111BFA1@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200007250814.CAA17951@harmony.village.org> References: Your message of "Tue, 25 Jul 2000 01:04:00 PDT." <200007250804.BAA06013@mindspring.com>
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I'm going to try not to be so harsh, but forgive me if I don't succeed. The problem is we are BSD and we are trying the Linux model, and it's not working. In fact, Open Souce as a whole from what I can see works like this: There is 1 or 2 main people for a given project, everybody is on the sidelines for the most part, throwing a tid bit here and there, but not doing much for the most part. If the main 1 or 2 people leave, then the project falls apart. That's what happened with PicoBSD. There is no "1" person in charge, so everything is patch works at best. We need someone to take charge, I personally don't have the skills needed or else I would. The current method of development is not working. We have to aim at some sort of structure. We do that by doing the following: 1) We list what we currently have 2) We list the discrepencies between the current version Pico is based on vs. the current Release of FreeBSD. (features, etc..) 3) We list what we feel is the most important 4) We list our "wish list" 5) We decide what features will go into what flavor 6) We delegate or people volunteer for certain parts 7) We have good build tracking 8) We follow everybody else, we have a devl, stable, and a nightly. So, anybody want to be captain? I want to see Pico work! Albert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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