Quoting Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 09:31:00AM -0800, Octavian Hornoiu wrote: > > Winbind requires nsswitch to work properly and I know that FreeBSD > > does not support it currently but why is this not a top priority at > > the moment? I would much rather have nsswitch working than some of > > the minor features introduced in 5.0. At least, this is my humble > > opinion and I might be asking too much. Is there a dedicated resource > > working on nsswitch at the current moment or is the project dead? > > This is a volunteer project so people work on what they feel like. At > this moment, I don't think anyone is working on nsswitch. Apparently, > the set people who think this is a top priority, and the set of people > willing and able (both in skill and time) to actually do the work don't > currently intersect. > > You've basicly got two options. 1) Since you're in the first set, you > could do what it takes to join the second set and do the work. 2) > convince someone in the second set the join the first set. I'm sure > there are plenty of people who would be happy to do the work under > contract if you were willing to pay for it. You're current approach of > telling everyone that they have screwed up priorities and should do what > you want is not likely to be a successful approach. > > -- Brooks > > -- > Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. > PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 >
I did not mean any offense to the FreeBSD project or developers. I know that the project is based on volunteers and I am not demanding anything, this is why I wrote that it is "my humble opinion" and not my "demand" that nsswitch get worked on. I was just hoping to get my question answered and perhaps raise awareness so that an interested developer might tackle this project. I appreciate the great work that all FreeBSD developers put into the project since I use FreeBSD on all the servers that I can install it on. Keep up the good work. :-) Thanks for your input, Octavian ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
