--On June 8, 2008 4:52:36 PM +0100 Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Just to be clear here, Adrian's claim that if someone else provided
patches for 6.2, they would be committed, is incorrect. The cost of
committing the patch is almost zero -- the cost of QA'ing the patch,
doing freebsd-update rebuilds, preparing security or errata notices,
etc, is extremely real, and the reason that we carefully limit the
number of releases we support at once. In fact, I'd argue that we have
been supporting too many releases at once, as I think our latency for
shipping errata notices and advisories is too high. By reducing the
number of releases we support, we improve the speed and attention we can
give each notice/advisory, which is an important consideration.
What would be the most beneficial boost to FreeBSD? Would it be cash?
Additional developers?
Does FreeBSD have anyone who works fulltime (IOW, is paid)?
Would more fulltime workers alleviate the issues you've articulated?
Paul Schmehl
If it isn't already obvious,
my opinions are my own and not
those of my employer.
