Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:48:26 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Cc: nate@yogotech.com, asmodai@wxs.nl, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The Project and onward [was: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinetip_output.c] Message-ID: <3AB01F6A.E3911501@elischer.org> References: <20010313104243.B60817@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20010313131934K.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <15023.42384.196115.528084@nomad.yogotech.com> <20010314104836N.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> We're not the authors of this software, we're just the current
> custodians, and a lot of the "technical guidelines" which discourage
> truly directionless development were already set in place 25 years
> ago. As far as I can see, everything we've done over the last 9 years
> has been incremental development within the scope of those guidelines
> and not a function of some brilliant group of strategists who've since
> departed the project.
There has been an overriding direction that has been
acknowledged by many:
More modularity
loadable everything.
better interfaces
>
> Our strategy has never been anything more "brilliant" than fixing
> bugs, updating tools, writing drivers for new hardware as it appeared
> and with a very occasional foray into truly new ground with things
> like netgraph (which could also be argued to be more evolutionary than
> revolutionary). If that isn't already being customer driven then I
> don't know what is and I was merely reaffirming my support for that
> strategy. Put your fur down before you give yourself a hairball.
>
> - Jordan
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