Re: Support for 5.x (Was: Re: What about BIND 9.3.4 in FreeBSD in base system ?)

Doug Barton napsal/wrote, On 02/03/07 01:51:
> This is where that whole "volunteer project"
thing comes in again. With 
> a finite set of resources,
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	True, but I'm not sure the resources needs to be limited as
much as is. 
As a active member of national list of FreeBSD user I
several times 
answered the question '{I founded an uncritical bug}|{I
developped a 
improvement } should I send it ?'. The best answer I know is
- "yes, you 
can send PR, but don't wait a response. Response for
non-critical bugs 
often takes several years, improvements remains unanswered
forever 
mostly. In the fact, the probability you will waste your
time trying to 
help to project is high - it have no resource to process
your help."

	Note, I'm not speaking about critical bugs (system doesn't
boot on 
standard hardware or "I can login despite I forged
password" or so) nor 
about ports.

	It seems to me, the one reason for limited resources is -
project has 
no resources to accept resources. I can't tell why the
project lack 
volunteers processing community inputs. May be, there are no
such 
volunteers. May be, this type of work is not considered to
be important, 
so volunteers of such type are not accept to be part of
comitter's team 
- of course - processing PR is not 'true programming'. Yes,
I understand 
we need to maintain stability, we don't need to allow any
dirty hack to 
go to source base and so on. But tenths months required for
processing 
help from someone (processing it's PR) claim there IS
something wrong.

	In the fact, project miss the resource of large group of
people trying 
to donate it's time and experience to project. At the same
time - we are 
short on resources ...

	As I don't know what's wrong nor how to correct it, this
message is not 
complaint in any way. It's just a note related to Doug's
notice ...

						Dan



-- 
Dan Lukes                                   SISAL MFF UK
AKA: danobluda.cz, danfreebsd.cz,dankolej.mff.cuni.cz
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