On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:32:20PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:01:35PM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > Someone should point NMs to difficulty of entering the development > > mainstream of FreeBSD or becoming maintainer for the kernel... > > IMO it's generally too easy entering in Debian. > > Becoming a maintainer of a new driver for the Linux kernel isn't that > difficult. You just have to convince a subsystem maintainer to take your > driver, which IME isn't very hard, definitely simpler than becoming a DD.
About the same as finding a sponsor, then, with about the same ease of maintenance afterwards (i.e. you still have to run your changes past someone, not upload them directly). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
