In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Fumerola
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the freebsd foundation is supposed to be an a not-for-profit
> organization that (amongst other things) delegates donated money to
> developers for this kind of work. at their current speed, they will
> be ready to provide
George writes:
> What is the exact set of goals to be achieved
> by the rewrite?
It will give developers some cool code to write. After all, there isn't any
other reason to rewrite something if it already works.
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* George V. Neville-Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011130 15:15] wrote:
> > I don't think a rewrite is ever going to be much of a good idea,
> > a restructuring might, meaning that fixing up all the layering
> > and making it more flat like Van Jacobson suggested (and Linux
> > implemented in one of th
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Bill Fumerola wrote:
> core has nothing to do with preventing or allowing completed work to
> enter the tree. the quality of the code does. presumably, the people
> that the foundation (or NAI or whoever) contracts to do FreeBSD work are
> of high calibur and that isn't a pr
> I don't think a rewrite is ever going to be much of a good idea,
> a restructuring might, meaning that fixing up all the layering
> and making it more flat like Van Jacobson suggested (and Linux
> implemented in one of their stack of the year projects) might
> gain us performance.
I would disag
* Jonathan Lemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011130 14:40] wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:09:20PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> > > Will the dedicated work of the said guru get a high priority as far as
> > > review and commit steps are concerned? A public semi-formal commitment
> > > or encouragem
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:09:20PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> > Will the dedicated work of the said guru get a high priority as far as
> > review and commit steps are concerned? A public semi-formal commitment
> > or encouragement from FreeBSD core group may be in order to raise
> > support fr
> Will the dedicated work of the said guru get a high priority as far as
> review and commit steps are concerned? A public semi-formal commitment
> or encouragement from FreeBSD core group may be in order to raise
> support from the community. Otherwise, folks may worry that these big
> changes, o
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:27:04AM -0700, Alex Rousskov wrote:
> What kind of sum of money are we talking about here? Can you estimate
> what hacker/month effort is required? Would it make sense to setup a
> [paypal] fund of some kind, hosted on freebsd.org to raise the
> required sum? That way s
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:01:21AM -0600, mark tinguely wrote:
> > > Too bad there are not companies throwing money around to fund a good
> > > rewrite...of course there is some competative advatange to do so only
> > > for themselves.
> >
> > Anyon
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:01:21AM -0600, mark tinguely wrote:
> > Too bad there are not companies throwing money around to fund a good
> > rewrite...of course there is some competative advatange to do so only
> > for themselves.
>
> Anyone want to fund
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