FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

[Igor Mozolevsky]

On 18 January 2012 13:11, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Igor Mozolevsky <igor at hybrid-lab.co.uk> wrote:

>> One way to
>> "encourage" people to fix their code would be to prevent them from
>> committing to -CURRENT once they pass a certain threshold of
>> "unattended" patches. Of course then, committers will be whinging that
>> they'd be resigning if they can't commit to -CURRENT, but quite
>> frankly, why should anyone have the commit privilege if they can't be
>> bothered to address the bugs, are those people just using the FreeBSD
>> project to boost their CV (with great powers comes great
>> responsibility!)?
>
> Wouldn't this discourage even more people from helping?

Would this not separate people who have a genuine interest in
contributing from "tinker-monkeys"?


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Igor M. :-)