Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Certainly, but as I wrote, it's not a big deal. I have > several other patches that I maintain on my own for > various reasons. For example I have a local patch set > that enables "-c none" in ssh, so I can scp large files > much faster between slow machines over channels that don't > need encryption, and still be able to use ssh's features. > I don't even try to submit the patch to the OpenSSH people, > because they would reject it.
Correct. > I considered submitting it as a local patch to the FreeBSD base, but I > think it would be rejected too, reason: "please submit it upstream to > the OpenSSH people". :-) Incorrect. I have done this myself in the past, and IIRC it's almost trivial. I don't recall why I didn't commit it. > In the particular case that I mentioned, the maintainer > of syscons was in the process of completely restructuring > the code anyway, so any other patches had to wait. Except he didn't really completely restructure it, he just broke it in a different way than it was already broken. I was very disappointed, but I didn't feel that I had sufficient seniority to contradict him, nor sufficient experience to fix it properly. > > > (I don't even think bsdforen.de is the largest German BSD > > > community, but that's a different story). > > Even in case it's the second biggest forum, it shouldn't be ignored; > I agree completely, it shouldn't be ignored. (Whether it's > the first, second or third biggest forum doesn't matter at > all; it can't be easily measured anyway.) BSDForen.de is a native-language forum, and I suspect it suffers from the same problems as other native-language fora: they become closed communities with little or no contact with the parent community, and over time they construct their own mythology of how that community functions and acts. I have seen this before - a complete disconnect between the reality of the project and its perception by a native-language user group, culminating in one case in a face to face "crisis meeting" between members of that community and FreeBSD developers, and in another in a flame war over an "open letter" from that user group to the developers. Interestingly, both cases involved German-language communities. I also dimly recall a similar situation with the Japanese FreeBSD community, which resulted in Warner learning Japanese in an effort to bridge the divide. I was very amused when he started copying some of the idiosyncracies of the Japanese community :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"