From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 5 14:59:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from whizkidtech.net (r42.bfm.org [216.127.220.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0780137BB48 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 14:59:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: (from adam@localhost) by whizkidtech.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id QAA00285; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 16:56:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from adam) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 16:56:57 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" To: Anatoly Vorobey Cc: Marco van de Voort , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000405165657.D245@whizkidtech.net> References: <20000405121135.8E3702E802@hermes.tue.nl> <20000405173037.A460@sasami.jurai.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000405173037.A460@sasami.jurai.net>; from mellon@pobox.com on Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 05:30:38PM -0400 Organization: Whiz Kid Technomagic X-URL: http://www.whizkidtech.net/ X-Castle: http://www.redprince.net/ X-Special-Effects: http://www.FilmSFX.com/ X-Operating-System: FreeBSD whizkidtech.net 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 05:30:38PM -0400, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: >I am willing to do this work ( a)-d) ), have a good understanding of >the issues involved, etc. Yes, you clearly do. :) > However I am neither a committer nor a >member of -core. If -core thinks this whole thing is a Bad Idea, >my changes won't get reviewed and/or committed, and I don't want to do >a lot of work to find out later it won't get into FreeBSD. This >is why I've asked for an endorsement from the People Who Decide >Things: not a guarantee, of course, that whatever I do will be >welcomed, but rather an acknowledgement that this is a Worthy Issue >and if my diffs are working well and answer the needed criteria, >they will be reviewed and committed. I'd say: Go for it. The core never decides on ideas, as far as I know. They only decide on code after it is written. You may want to talk to Soren since he has done most of the console work. It is better if your effort is coordinated with his. Cheers, Adam -- "Let's eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may diet" -- Seen on a dining room wall... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message