Hi, On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > On Aug 1, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Adrian Chadd <adr...@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> Any interested party is very welcome to approach a developer and get >>> added to the developer summits. Plenty of the people at the most >>> recent developer summit weren't @freebsd.org committers - we had >>> plenty of representation from companies using FreeBSD. >>> >>> If you want to participate, just ask a friendly developer who is going >>> to the developer summit to sponsor you in going. You're pleasant in >>> person, so I'd have no problem sponsoring you if I am going to an >>> event. :) >>> >> I have a very deep, quasi-philosophical, trouble/problem with that >> whole idea of sponsor-requirement to attend a such meeting. There is >> just something which does not feel right about it. From my point of >> view, this is a matter of common sense, focus is gonna be very narrow >> and deeply technical. Attendee should go there only if they think they >> will give positive feedback. As for myself, I would not attend a >> developer meeting on the fiber-channel over infiniband optimization, >> but would attend a developer meeting on next-generation mbuf. >> >> Now, maybe I'll just push the door of some developer meeting I'd be >> interested in during next BSDCan, and see what happen :-) The outcome >> might be interesting to study in a social interaction, prisoner >> dilemma related, point-of-view. > > Given how ridiculously easy it is to get a proper invite, there's not need to > be a jerk just to prove an obscure philosophical point about attendance. > There's plenty of time to do that over the technical points being discussed. > Let me explain my thoughts: I do not recognize the committers legitimacy to give such invite, and to some extend, I do not recognize committers self-given legitimacy altogether. This do not mean I'd praised a structure-less project; quite the opposite actually. Starting from that, I will certainly not defer to anybody to request such invite or commit bit. Feel free to kick me out of the meeting room if you want to; I would have proved my point.
Now, if invites are so easy to get, just get rid of it. It's a worthless, cumbersome item. - Arnaud ps: please, do not get me wrong, I would apply this policy to anybody who propose to help. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
