Brian Utterback wrote: > ... > As far as up stream changes to the NTP project code base. No worries, > I am a committer on the project. As long as the changes aren't around > the core algorithms (Dr. Mills vets all changes there), anything > reasonable should be okay. The changes to put the ntp service in to > maintenance mode for offsets greater than 20 minutes are already in > there, for instance. Had to get Dr. Mills approval for that one though, > because they happened to land in a section of code he vets.
That's really great to hear, even though it benefits from you being on the "inside". But perhaps that is the model OpenSolaris should persue: where we're making changes to 3rd party code, make sure someone from the group in Sun is on the "inside" of the group outside. Thanks, Darren