From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 2 14:21:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA29139 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 14:21:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA29127 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 14:21:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA12726; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 00:21:02 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA25382; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 00:08:56 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970403000856.EU42233@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 00:08:56 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Cc: thompson@squirrel.tgsoft.com (mark thompson) Subject: Re: Code maintenance References: <19970402205513.11072.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <19970402205513.11072.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com>; from mark thompson on Apr 2, 1997 20:55:13 -0000 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As mark thompson wrote: > > Yes, see the ft(4) and aic(4) drivers for two good examples. Both > > sorely lack a maintainer, and nobody seems to be interested in doing > > this job. > > Hmmm.... i have volunteered before to maintain ft, since tapes are kind Hmm, i can't muchly remember your name, nor having seen any offer to maintain ft(4). If you're serious about this, go ahead! > of a (twisted) specialty of mine. My only request is that someone donate > the drives to test on, since i don't use QIC format any more. Chuck Robey once contributed his old Colorado tape to the project, which is currently sitting in my scratchbox. I happily send it to you, but please understand that i'd like to see some sort of, well not quite `guarantee', but at least promise, that you're serious about this. Remember, there have been three maintainers of this code before who all went off-ship since. This is an old Colorado QIC-40 drive. I've also got a supposedly broken QIC-80 one, but i'm totally uncertain about its status. > My offer to help kind of got blown off. By whom? Certainly not by me. Nor can i remember that you ever wrote a mail to the core team applying for this job, at least not during the time i've been a member of that team (which must go into its 2nd anniversary anytime soon). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)