From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 12 16:58:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B24837B416 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:58:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 5EF52786E3; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:28:42 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:28:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Hiten Pandya Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD [VOTE] Message-ID: <20011213112842.C3448@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <20011212172021.L82733@monorchid.lemis.com> <20011212094310.13502.qmail@web21106.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011212094310.13502.qmail@web21106.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 12 December 2001 at 1:43:10 -0800, Hiten Pandya wrote: > Hi, > > as i said also before, my intentions were never to cause havoc on > the mailing list. :-) > > In simple terms, what i am saying is, the people who would like to > port the JFS file system, should put a +1 in their next message and > -1 if they dont like to port JFS. > > Then, i will count the votes, and if +1 outweighs -1, then i will > try to gether developers who can help me in this task, and try to > finish it by Sept. 2002. > > BUT, if -1 outweighs +1, then i will cancel the project and live it > for my spare time, and will not go around asking everyone about > it... > > OR, another way of doing this would be to, just try and get this JFS > porting done by people who would like to do it (including me), and > then put it on the FreeBSD site. This is the traditional way to do it. You don't need anybody's permission :-) You can also be sure that you won't get many replies either way, and those you get may not be representative of the project as a whole. "Just Do It". Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message