Re: FreeBSD 2013-Q2 status reports!

2013-06-17 Thread David Chisnall
Hi Everyone, If English is not your first language and / or you are not confident about your writing, please don't let this stop you from submitting something. A native English speaker (probably me) will read through everything before publication and fix any errors. As long as the technical d

Re: base gcc and _GLIBCXX_USE_C99

2013-02-01 Thread David Chisnall
On 1 Feb 2013, at 13:31, Andriy Gapon wrote: > cstdlib would provide e.g. std::strtoull only when _GLIBCXX_USE_C99 is > defined. This is entirely consistent with the standard. strtoull() should only be visible when compiling in C++11 mode, it is not part of C++98 / C++03. David signature.a

Re: On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]

2012-08-02 Thread David Chisnall
Thank you for your thoughtful reply, On 2 Aug 2012, at 19:33, Doug Barton wrote: > However, my point is that in spite of the fact that it's non-trivial, > the mindset on this topic needs to change if the dev summits are going > to continue to be significant focii of both work being done and > dec

Re: On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]

2012-08-02 Thread David Chisnall
On 2 Aug 2012, at 18:47, Doug Barton wrote: > Cheap copout. And quite sad, especially coming from a newly elected core > team member. FreeBSD is a volunteer project. Our DevSummits are not run by a commercial organisation, they are run by volunteers. I am not being paid to organise the Cambri

Re: On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]

2012-08-02 Thread David Chisnall
On 2 Aug 2012, at 18:28, Doug Barton wrote: > Welcome to the 21st Century. :) There are widely available audio and > video conferencing solutions that easily scale into the thousands of > users, at minimal cost. > > Yes, "It takes effort." I get that. I've been part of the effort to > provide rem

Re: On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]

2012-08-02 Thread David Chisnall
On 2 Aug 2012, at 17:46, Doug Barton wrote: > Well that's a start. :) And where was this availability announced? If I > missed it, that's on me. But providing remote access that you don't tell > people about isn't really any better than not providing it at all. It's not widely advertised, because

Re: On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]

2012-08-02 Thread David Chisnall
On 2 Aug 2012, at 05:30, Doug Barton wrote: > I used to ask the PTB to provide *some* form of remote participation for > even a fraction of the events at the dev summit. I don't bother asking > anymore because year after year my requests were met with any of: > indifference, hostility, shrugged sh