From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 1 01:16:28 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0752B16A417 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 01:16:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 662AA13C4C6 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 01:16:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from kobe.laptop (dialup58.ach.sch.gr [81.186.70.58]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9) with ESMTP id lA10crgm031063 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 02:39:02 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id lA10cl0C050652; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 02:38:47 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id lA10cZtp050647; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 02:38:35 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 02:38:35 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Eduardo Morras Message-ID: <20071101003835.GA50548@kobe.laptop> References: <4727D3B20008B8C1@> <3558.208.70.104.211.1193873907.squirrel@webmail.ibctech.ca> <4727D3B2000A7E66@> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4727D3B2000A7E66@> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.143, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.26, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@freebsd.org X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: memory pool, rfc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:16:28 -0000 --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On 2007-11-01 01:00, Eduardo Morras wrote: > I'm already on hackers list but has very low traffic (9 messages last > 5 days) and this is a question list no ? ;-) This is a 'general' questions list, with a fairly high level of traffic. Many FreeBSD committers and team affiliates are subscribed, but there are still a lot of knowledgeable people who are respected team members, but are *not* subcribed here. Maybe in a more appropriate list you can get a greater amount of visibility with people who can help your contributions to be integrated with the main source code tree of FreeBSD. > I think that in this list are FreeBSD *gurus*/hacks too which could > say a "try it" or a "are you crazy?" answer. If other developers > thinks that they need my rfc i'll add my code to FreeBSD. It's hard to tell in advance, without actually *seeing* something in the form of a proposal, or at least an implementation. The FreeBSD team works in an open manner, and we take pride in the fairly well established process of development we use. Everyone is invited to support, extend, fix bugs, implement new features, or otherwise improve FreeBSD, as long as they are prepared to put in some effort to "fit within the team". Having said that, all you would have to show us would be at least one of: * A detailed proposal of the changes, optionally including a justifiction of why you think the changes are necessary and how they will improve the user experience of the people who comprise our userbase. * A pilot implementation of the new features you described. It doesn't have to be complete; it doesn't have to precisely match the existing style of the code; it doesn't have to be performing blazingly fast, if there are plans for tuning; it doesn't even have to be compilable; as long as you are prepared to help us fix all the details. Then, I'm sure that if the improvements you are working on look interesting, you stand a better chance of soliciting comments, feedback related to the way the changes can go into FreeBSD, help with the testing process of the source integration, and so on. This means that the next reasonable step would be to make available at least a proposal or source patch, and post it to one of the developer lists of FreeBSD. The freebsd-hackers list would be nice. > The point to zlib / libbzip2 is because when i talk about compression > *always* someone says " Why don't use zlib?" Short answer No, Medium > Answer: deflate is 15 years old and there are better and faster algs > now. That's one way to describe zlib. Perhaps not the only one, but still a valid opinion to hold, so let's go down that path. It doesn't sound like a productive use of everyone's time, unless we have a solid plan for a better zlib replacement in place :-) Giorgos --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHKSAK1g+UGjGGA7YRAl4ZAJ9J4wmgb3diIIN5pGwA6b9AuqVtbQCfSmiT VgLzRWGc9lzaCgeNfTd8ynk= =RgWT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF--