Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:09:21 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Project and onward [was: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_output.c] Message-ID: <200103132309.f2DN9LS02338@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Mar 2001 03:12:02 PST." <20010313031202.A10019@mollari.cthul.hu>
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> > What we currently lack, at least in my opinion, is some idea of where
> > we want to head to for the coming time in global lines.
>
> IMO, "Where we want to head" is such a generic question as to
> basically be meaningless and have little low-level guiding power.
> Besides, the powers of any architectural body to steer the course of
> FreeBSD are limited to what they can either a) fund, b) do themselves,
> or c) coerce others into doing by other means.
This is basically true.
FreeBSD development is not "guided" or "structured" in any meaningful
way, and anyone that thinks it is has been watching too much late-night
self-help television.
A better allegory would be a game of Frogger. We go where there's
something we can jump on, or because we're about to get run over by a
truck. You can't "plan" this; you just have to make the immediate
decisions with an eye to their long-term implications.
--
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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