Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:27:28 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: duration of the ports freeze Message-ID: <4752DCF0.2010701@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200712020725.24554.david@vizion2000.net> References: <33640.194.74.82.3.1196149681.squirrel@galain.elvandar.org> <200712011450.58878.david@vizion2000.net> <20071201165954.S16007@cauchy.math.missouri.edu> <200712020725.24554.david@vizion2000.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > > I am not comparing a ports freeze to Global warming -- just > likening the responses to a problem. And like global warming it is something everyone thinks they know something about but at the end of day it turns out that as far I can tell no one really understands the entire problem. Michael Crichton did a really good job looking at this in "State of Fear" (2003) where he basically showed in a fictionalized manner (but as shown in the appendix's fact based) that anyone who claimed to understand global warming (or lack thereof) was being at best egotistical. Basically his thesis is we do not know enough (with hard science) about the problem (or lack thereof) base any short of policy on. In short everyone is equally wrong. The ports system I think is currently in the same state you have one group who thinks nothing is wrong but doesn't have any historical evidence to support such a claim. On the other side you have people (like me) who "know" there is a problem but lack any kind of hard data to clearly state what it is (or that there even is one). Thats the reason for the survey I posted (an objective first look at peoples empirical perceptions of the system as a way of framing what questions need to be answered to know if there really is a long term problem). Only then can we quantize the problem and establish a set of tests to objectivally see the current longterm health of the system. Assuming a change is needed then we will need to start to look at solutions. I suspect the first 2 phases will not be done to mid Jan and a reasonable first cut as to solutions will not be done to the end of Feb. - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHUtzw358R5LPuPvsRAvbZAJ9uD8qfaiDVSFuNT1JG4+/PxjGivwCgjTi7 V7SShNXh55nTWrwOQXRLSzk= =6jfX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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