Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20040108033905.A32598 at pooker.samsco.home>
            Scott Long <scottl at freebsd.org> writes:
: My offer for a 'floppy
: maintainer' is quite sincere; I hope that someone takes an interest and
: steps up to the challenge.

I think people misunderstand Scott's call here.  He's not saying that
the project doesn't want to support floppies because they are
floppies.  It isn't a dislike of the technology.  Scott is saying that
they have become a burdon to the release engineering team.  He's
saying that he's looking for someone to volunteer to actively help
care and feed for the floppies used in the installation process.  This
is a call for people who care about them to step forward and put some
action behind their caring.

The only way something stays working in FreeBSD is if enough
developers care about it to monitor it constantly.  There are many
examples of formerly well supported items being less supported now
because they impact fewer developers directly.  This is one of them.

We can all come up with better ideas on how to support these things.
Ideas aren't the issue.  Elbow grease and sweat are.

Warner