Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 22:14:45 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation Message-ID: <199701220514.WAA23918@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199701220215.TAA20711@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <1045.853896142@time.cdrom.com> <199701220215.TAA20711@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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[ Cranking them out tonight ] > > I think you're working from a misperception. The core team doesn't > > spend its time sitting around rubbing its collective hands together > > and going "Mooohahahaha! POWER!" so it's not likely to consider this > > in terms of power loss so much as it is in terms of how much workload > > is generated. > > You misapprehend my meaning when I say "power". I include "the power > to control the workload" in "power". > > The salient point here is that with reduced power comes reduced > responsibility (yeah, I watched 'Spiderman' when I was a kid). > This means that workload control is no longer the resonsibility of > the core team... it probably never should have been, since they > are technical people better spent solving technical problems > than spent worrying about being buried alive by some fool with > a bottle of old French wine. Umm, I think you are working from a misperception. The core team doesn't have anything to do with determining the 'workload' of FreeBSD. Code either gets submitted and committed by a 'committer', and if the submitter has proven him/herself trustworthy than that person becomes a committer. Just recently Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> was added to the committers list because of his work on syscons and the PS/2 mouse driver. Core made the final decision (of course), but I Kazu's work was the deciding factor as to whether or not he should be a committer, not some secret hush-hush core discussion. Nate
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