John Polstra wrote:
> No, Terry's idea is sound as long as you only try to track one branch
> of FreeBSD. I.e., you consider FreeBSD to be your vendor, and you do
> a checkout-mode type of fetch from a branch of the FreeBSD repository
> and directly import it onto your own vendor branch. This would meet
> the needs of a lot of people, e.g., companies who make products based
> on FreeBSD.
Yes, precisely. People always complain that companies are
gun-shy of -current; the inability to tag a "sufficiently
stable" version is why most companies stay away from it.
This means that most commercially funded work occurs on the
-RELEASE/-STABLE branches, for fear of destabilizing their
products. Everyone in FreeBSD-land always complains about
this, even as they continue to make -current even less
stable, and less likely to result in them getting funded
help to work on it. So a lot of forward looking research
takes a lot longer than it should to bear fruit (or wither,
if it turns out to be a net loss).
> I have had this on my to-do list for a long time, but I have no idea
> if or when it'll ever get implemented. It would require a focused
> period of working on it that I just don't have these days. Maybe if
> the economy gets worse ...
I hear Hewlett-Compaqard is laying off 15,000, if that's any
incentive...
I guess a better question would be whether funding would help?
-- Terry
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