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Date:      Tue, 5 May 1998 23:16:20 +0200
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Development Projects
Message-ID:  <19980505231620.27104@panke.de>
In-Reply-To: <199805041208.OAA06133@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Mon, May 04, 1998 at 02:08:43PM %2B0200
References:  <199805041009.MAA00936@panke.panke.de> <199805041208.OAA06133@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>

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On 1998-05-04 14:08:43 +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > The list of FreeBSD Development Projects growing. I'm sure there are
> > many FreeBSD projects which are still not listed. If you miss your
> > project please sent the name of the project and the URL to
> > www@freebsd.org or to me.
> 
> i really appreciate the effort in constructing this list.
> 
> However, there are huge differences among the projects in this
> list. Some are well established and have working and supported
> piece of code (PAO, SMP, some multimedia stuff), some are in
> development, some other look more like a wishlist and have been
> around for years without any progress at all (in this category may
> mention ports to Alpha and Sparc, Token Ring, maybe also documentation,
> and some of the hacks available from my web page)

There is currently one active FreeBSD/alpha committer. 

The FreeBSD/alpha and the FreeBSD/sparc web page get ~20 page
visits/day due the link at /support.html Maybe we find a hacker
who will improve the architecture ports.


> In order to avoid confusion, i suggest to classify items depending
> on their status (and the availability of working code or a clean
> patch for 2.2.X or 3.0 is a useful metric that should not offend
> anyone).

I don't have the time to do that. 

-- 
Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/

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