On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 2:07 PM, John Marino <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I would not classify much of this work as maintenance. > > The semaphores is pthreads work -- nobody has touched threads in years > from what I can see. Not trivial. > "Maintenance" does not mean easy. "Maintenance" means we're not introducing anything new. This list is all, or nearly all, things already present in FreeBSD. I'd like to have projects in DragonFly that are unique to DragonFly. We have a more flexible group of developers and a more straightforward code base to deal with; this has already paid off for SMP development and Matt's Hammer work. We've got the space to accommodate new work.
