At 04:13 PM 9/18/2008, Jo Rhett wrote:
On Sep 18, 2008, at 12:46 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
I am sorry, I meant, what have you contributed currently or in the
past to FreeBSD ? i.e. what code, or money or physical resources
(hardware) or time testing code ?
I do a lot of testing and patches regarding components we use. Search
the PRs. I maintain several ports.
I had a search and I see some PRs you have submitted, but I guess you
commit under a different @freebsd.org email address ?
I built freebsd package
management into cfengine, and greatly extended the package management
functionality above and beyond to support every operation freebsd can
take on a package.
We host numerous freebsd developers in our
facility for nearly nothing.
Thats most excellent! I think people would take your suggestions
with greater gravity if you reminded them with a few URLs to point
out the various commit messages that say, "sponsored by
netconsonance" etc. Or perhaps a few of these numerous developers
could speak up on your behalf?
We pay for development of features that
we need but don't have the appropriate skills to fix ourselves.
That then went back into FreeBSD ? Can you give examples ? I ask
all this as you really, really want things to change, and you say you
have resources to offer, yet you seem to have alienated a LOT of
people from previously similar threads
(http://freebsd.monkey.org/freebsd-stable/200806/msg00037.html)
You advocate that people not reject your offers of help and
resources, yet at the same time respond to developers who actually do
a LOT of work and were going to look at what you have to offer by way
of bug reports that you are way too busy to oblige
http://freebsd.monkey.org/freebsd-stable/200806/msg00069.html
Perhaps if you posted some references to success stories you have had
with the FreeBSD developer community at large, this would help make your case.
---Mike
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