From owner-cvs-all Tue Mar 13 15: 7:56 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E2437B718; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:07:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2DN9LS02338; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:09:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200103132309.f2DN9LS02338@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Project and onward [was: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_output.c] In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 13 Mar 2001 03:12:02 PST." <20010313031202.A10019@mollari.cthul.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:09:21 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message