Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 07:25:24 -0800 From: David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: duration of the ports freeze Message-ID: <200712020725.24554.david@vizion2000.net> In-Reply-To: <20071201165954.S16007@cauchy.math.missouri.edu> References: <33640.194.74.82.3.1196149681.squirrel@galain.elvandar.org> <200712011450.58878.david@vizion2000.net> <20071201165954.S16007@cauchy.math.missouri.edu>
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On Saturday 01 December 2007 15:05:39 Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > It's nothing like global warming. =A0Global warming is an ill understood > problem, with various estimates ranging from basically not existing to > it's too late and we are all doomed anyway, and the potential > consequences of not fixing it if it is a problem are widespread and > catastrophic. > > Issues with the ports freeze are very well understood, with consequences > of getting it wrong either way being fairly inconsequential, and always > something that can be revisited without the whole world going down the > tubes. =A0The very worst that can happen is that a marginally used operat= ing > system will go down the tubes, and someone will fork the code long before > that happens. > > To compare "ports freeze" to "global warming" is hyperbole in the extreme. I am not comparing a ports freeze to Global warming -- just likening the=20 responses to a problem.=20 Just like there were people in governemnt who tried to deny the need to tac= kle=20 global warming so there are those, in the freebsd community, who wish to bu= ry=20 their head in the sand to the apparen need to re-engineer the ports system = so=20 that ports freezes are unnecessary. There is also the need to deal with oth= er=20 historical deficiencies in the ports sytem (especially dependency system)=20 that are causing increasing problems. I have been using freebsd for over 14 years and am very aware the the=20 engineering processes of the 70's and 80's upon which it was based are now= =20 creaking at the seams. We need to engineer in a more scaleable fashion and = do=20 it before exponential growth in the ports system overwhelms else. Like dealing with global warming it is better to act early than too late. david
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