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Date:      Tue, 20 Apr 1999 00:00:52 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc:        wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>, W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: newbus and modem(s)
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990420000052.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199904191722.KAA43892@rah.star-gate.com>

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On 19-Apr-99 Amancio Hasty wrote:
>> All 'source code' control is guarded by a certain group of people in
>> *every* project, and FreeBSD is no different.  It just has different
>> folks guarding it, who have different standards and requirements.
> 
> Perhaps a good step towards understanding would be if those
> "guarding" the process would actually state what is their
> standard and requirements, if they have any. It coud start
> by something like this:
> 
>       FreeBSD Development Guidelines and Motivation...
> 
> It don't matter nothing has bee resolved with this issue for the last
> year when I highlighted this problem and I doubt that anything
> will come out of it this time.

Funny thing, that's one of the things I am persuing with the Programmer's
Handbook... So mayhaps Amancio, yer dream may come true =)

Let me ask this other question:

what do you, and others, think the guidelines and motivation of/for FreeBSD
ought to be?

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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven                asmodai(at)wxs.nl
        The FreeBSD Programmer's Documentation Project 
Network/Security Specialist      <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
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