On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]

[Julian Elischer]

On 8/1/12 12:45 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Attilio Rao <attilio at freebsd.org> wrote:
> As for the mbuf meeting, all I can find from it online is: 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2012-June/012629.html

actually nothing has happenned on this yet that I know of, which is why
there has been no action to see.

We all agree that it is an item  to put on our agenda but until there 
is someone
who gets the free time it's just a "sanctioned priority item"

>
> which is not worth much... Rather than doing things internally, maybe
> it is time to open up... oh, wait, you will certainly come to the
> community with a design plan, figure out it's not gonna work while
> doing the implementation, change the design plan while implementing,
> go public with a +3k/-2k loc change patch, ask for benediction, go
> ahead and commit it up until someone comes with an obvious design flaw
> which would render the change pretty much useless, but there will be
> man-month of work to fix it, so it's never gonna be done.


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