Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 11:17:20 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers), StevenR362@aol.com Subject: Re: HELP: Cyclades Drivers Message-ID: <289.821355440@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jan 1996 10:28:37 %2B0100." <199601110928.KAA11226@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> Our resources aren't infinite. Authors who are willing to actively > maintain their code are always welcome. Otherwise, somebody of the > existing commiters must take responsibility for the code, and to the > best of my knowledge, all of them are already overloaded enough by > now. (There's an even worse third scenario: the code becomes > orphaned, and remains in ugly shape while the system is evolving. See > the msdosfs code, or the floppy tape driver. We are not keen to get > more orphans.) We may actually have to tighten this up a bit, since this is an increasing problem :-( -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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