In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vadim Vygonets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Well, ITYM "non-compliant". In fact, just yesterday I've read an article
> > that says BSD is better because in Linux you have just Alan and Linus in
> > full control of code, while in BSD it's full team.
>
> In most BSD systems, there is a "core team" which has write
> access to the source code, and other coders, whose only chance
> to submit their code to the OS is to give it to the member of the
> core team. Sounds nice to me, actually.
Actually, most developers in BSD systems are not part of the ``core''
group. They are people who have proven to be willing, trustworthy and
talented and were therefore granted access to the projects'
development machines and CVS repositories. The ``core'' group is more
like a board of directors, or technical management. FreeBSD, for
example, has 177 people with commit privileges, but only 16 members
in the ``core'' team. NetBSD has approximately 102 commiters
and 6 ``core'' group members. There is some overlap in these numbers,
plus not every committer is actually a developer. (Since these
projects include documentation as well, FreeBSD at least has people
who are only allowed to touch the documentation parts of the tree.)
Only OpenBSD does not have a core group. In fact, OpenBSD came to
life because of `violent disagreements' between Theo de Raadt and the
NetBSD core group.
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