Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:00:34 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame) Message-ID: <78215.1073901634@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jan 2004 03:41:42 CST." <200401120341.42349.linimon@lonesome.com>
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In message <200401120341.42349.linimon@lonesome.com>, Mark Linimon writes: >But, in the real world of software engineering, He Who Breaketh It, >Must Fixeth It. If we are talking paid jobs, yes, then you can make rules like that because with the salary you control resource allocation and prioritization. My real life experience show that such rules invariably give way to other factors when push comes to shove, but they're nice as a starting point until the real real world rears its ugly head. In a free software project, you can take any rule like that an put it anywhere you like, in any font, size and color of your choice and it still wont work. If there are not enough people willing and able to actively maintain vinum, and in particular to make it keep pace with the kernel infrastructure then we are only talking about _when_, not _if_ it will die. What about vinum and locking ? Is anybody working on getting vinun out from under Giant ? Any piece of software in FreeBSD needs a minimum critical mass of developers, and judging from the probelms, both RF and vinum are below that threshold. If vinum means a lot to you, you should do something to get it above that threshold: start debugging/coding, learn to code if need be, donate money so somebody else can code if you can't do anything else. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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