From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 5 10:20:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA12834 for current-outgoing; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 10:20:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA12828 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 10:20:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA08708; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 11:18:03 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603051818.LAA08708@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: -current submitting policys To: ejc@nasvr1.cb.att.com Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 11:18:03 -0700 (MST) Cc: dob@nasvr1.cb.att.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de In-Reply-To: <9603051306.AA06002@ginger.cb.att.com> from "ejc@nasvr1.cb.att.com" at Mar 5, 96 08:06:06 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > My request for information on current development policies > was in know way a judgement on Paul's quality of development. If my > request was taken wrong, because of it's implicit connect to the previous > -current make world failure, I would like to apologies to Paul. Paul I'm > sorry if you took my post the wrong way, please continue your development > on FreeBSD it is appreciated. > > On the other had I did not receive a single message on formal > development policies for FreeBSD. I assume the policies for FreeBSD are > then just personal development policies? Again: there are very few restrictions. The criteria I gave was a general set of guidelines which the members of the committer's list has been historically known to follow. Since one of the goals is (or should be; it's unstated) to allow as much participation as possible, and another is to allow commercial use of the Base OS and as much of the user space code as possible, you can pretty much derive everything I said from taking those two as axioms. Jordan has pointed out that there is a "submitters" section in the handbook (online at www.freebsd.org), and has stated that he is considering updating it with more formal information. Have you looked at the current criteria in the handbook today? I believe it is intentionally less formal than it could be to encourage as wide a set of participants as possible. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.