Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 18:11:23 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Archive pruning Message-ID: <v04220821b52cc4508e73@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <20000426085040.A59015@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004251240210.11211-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <00042515105300.02802@nomad.dataplex.net> <20000425133242.A42075@wopr.caltech.edu> <v0422080bb52c73ecad80@[195.238.1.121]> <20000426085040.A59015@wopr.caltech.edu>
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At 8:50 AM -0700 2000/4/26, Matthew Hunt wrote: > In any case where somebody says "Y'all should do such-and-such" > without ponying up the code himself, we should be thinking about > whether the benefit to the users will "pay for" the time it takes > us to do it. Sounds like a reasonable cost-benefit analysis, as far as it goes. > If 10% of the people who run -CURRENT would find a > pruned-history repository useful, but only 10% of our user-base > runs -CURRENT, then it seems to me that the fact that it benefits > 1% of the user population is the relevant figure. I am only guessing, but the way I read the original proposal (which Richard has been advocating much more strongly than the person who originally proposed it) sounded to me like it would benefit anyone and everyone that installed the sources, and therefore is a much broader issue that really should be discussed on something like a -POLICY mailing list, as opposed to here on -CURRENT. Assuming it were relevant to just the users of -CURRENT, how can you be sure that only 10% of them would benefit? To be fair and honest, you'd have to take a statistical sample of a large enough group of users of -CURRENT, and not just rely on the self-selecting responses by a vocal subset. Assuming you could take a statistically valid sample and prove that it really would benefit just 10% of the users of -CURRENT, how could you prove that only 10% of the people run -CURRENT as opposed to -STABLE? > Does this address your criticism? I think there are a number of issues to be resolved. Probably the most important is the issue of scope of the change, and who all would potentially benefit (or be harmed) by such a change. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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