Future of pf / firewall in FreeBSD ? - does it have one ?

John-Mark Gurney jmg at funkthat.com
Fri Aug 1 18:36:57 UTC 2014


Cy Schubert wrote this message on Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 09:18 -0700:
> In message <CAJ-Vmo=_vLkMZn02EPUmpvqugcT8ga1_Kqs=XU49SGUNGEO0Pw at mail.gmail.c
> om>
> , Adrian Chadd writes:
> > On 18 July 2014 07:34, krad <kraduk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > that is true and I have not problem using man pages, however thats not the
> > > way most of the world work and search engines arent exactly new either. We
> > > should be trying to engage more people not less, and part of that is
> > > reaching out.
> > 
> > Then do the port and maintain it.
> > 
> > The problem isn't the desire to keep things up to date, it's a lack of
> > people who want that _and_ are willing/able to do it _and_ are funded
> > somehow.
> 
> Funding is the issue. Sure, some of us maintain software because a personal 
> need however without funding one has to fit maintaining software into 
> whatever time is left. For those of us who do this without funding you 
> manage to squeeze in an hour here or there.

Then write a proposal and submit it to the Foundation..  If you don't
ask for funding, it rarely shows up...

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