Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 10:09:18 -0700 From: "Arun Sharma" <arun@sharmas.dhs.org> To: <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Reiser: BSD cliques Message-ID: <JPENJPCGKEAHFPBDMJFIAEPICAAA.arun@sharmas.dhs.org>
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http://steven.haryan.to/interview-hans-reiser.html So this is the nth time, I've heard the same allegation. Is anything being done to address it ? In particular, the openness of the development process. I sent serveral patches to the kernel to -hackers during the last year or two. All of them were send-pr'ed too. But not one of them made it into the kernel. Neither were they rejected based on some technical reasoning. I found that this was not true in some of the less "core" areas. Several of my contributions to -ports were accepted and PRs actively worked on. I personally think that it is more due to indifference than xenophobia. I've said this before too on -hackers, witout a response. I know people work on a voluntary basis, work on what's interesting to them, rather than sifting through loads of PRs. Some thoughts: - Instead of having a "kern" category in gnats, break it down to smaller subsystems and have people "own" subsystems (I know this exists, informally). - If this isn't addressed well, sooner or later, some motivated hot head somewhere, who doesn't like GPL is going to fork FreeBSD and I'd hate to see that happen. - send-pr web interface is not very usable right now. I can't attach a patch easily for eg. I've offered to fix it in the past, again no response. I really hope people will look at this as something more than a flamebait and look into it seriously. I can't help mentioning Linux in this context, but it's just too relevant to ignore. -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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