Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 01:45:16 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>, Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>, Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of netns - politically correct version Message-ID: <3E65C72C.789FE15@mindspring.com> References: <3E6539B5.2F5D31B@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20030305084442.037e9fa0@gid.co.uk> <3E65BB24.3E37D90D@mindspring.com> <20030305030708.A21014@FreeBSD.org> <3E65C34D.19E2D95C@mindspring.com> <20030305014105.K18288@znfgre.tberna.bet>
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Doug Barton wrote: > On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > > If you want to make it about "failure to attract a maintainer", then > > do that. > > Actually several people have made this argument, along with the corollary > "failure to attract a userbase." I would claim that non-working code *repelled* the userbase, just as all the packet radio people went to Linux when the ISODE code was murdered and X.25 went away, the same way we are talking about doing to the XNS code now. If your system can't do something, then *of course* you are n'tgoing to attract user who want to do that something: they will go to systems that aren't incapable of doing what they want. I would claim that the "failure to attract a maintainer" was a result of too stringent control of commit priviledges. There is code lying fallow in FreeBSD now which has no maintainer, for lack of commit priviledges for people willing to maintain the code (and no, I am not making a case for myself here). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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