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Date:      Thu, 7 Sep 2000 19:50:50 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/common boot.c module.c src/sys/boot/forth loader.conf src/sys/conf Makefile.alpha Makefile.i386 Makefile.pc98 kmod.mk src/share/mk bsd.own.mk
Message-ID:  <20000907195050.A44141@mithrandr.moria.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000907131105.A811@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:11:05PM %2B0100
References:  <20000906094918.A5184@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <200009052237.PAA73730@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000906094918.A5184@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <200009061729.LAA69925@harmony.village.org> <20000907131105.A811@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>

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On Thu 2000-09-07 (13:11), Nik Clayton wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:29:30AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> > : Where was this change discussed?  I'm on -arch, -current, and -hackers,
> > : and don't recall seeing anything like this come by.
> > 
> > I recall a meeting at FreeBSDCon 1999 where David O'Brien, myself,
> > Greg Lehey, Mike Smith and a couple other people talked about this as
> > the long term design goal.  

> I'm hearing an increasing number of comments from people that a lot of
> the FreeBSD development work is done behind closed doors.  Not only does
> this make it difficult for people to contribute to the initial work, it 
> also makes it difficult for people to carry on the work.  For example,
> the libh stuff, and the work that's being done in IA-64.

libh is most certainly not being done behind anyone's back (that is, if
it's being done at all).  Subscribe to freebsd-libh, and you can see
what (very very little at the moment) is happening.

I've pointed at least two people on the mailing list to this.

Admittedly we need a better projects page, though.

Neil
-- 
Neil Blakey-Milner
Sunesi Clinical Systems
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org


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