On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:02:11AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > Looking at the repository, I have not really seen anything done with > > building a NetBSD-style rc.d system that will provide FreeBSD > > functionality for a long time. > > Several of us have started on this, and either run out of time, or > interest (as you've seen described already). There are at least three > problems I can see with this project, in no particular order. A) Everyone > in the project thinks they know both the problems and the solutions. B) > Everyone who is willing to do actual work on the project (myself included) > has strong ideas about how it should go, often incompatible with other's > strong ideas. C) The real problem of making this work is actually much > bigger than the "just do a straight port" drum that most of the people who > aren't actually willing to put the work into it beat rather loudly > whenever the topic comes up. > > Currently I don't have nearly as much time to work on this project > as I thought I would by now. I moved to the bay area in september and was > hoping feverishly that the many hours of overtime required to get in the > groove of my new job would slow down, and to some extent they have, but > I'm barely getting back up to speed on current -current, which I > personally think of as a pre-req for doing the rc work. > > What I have always said we need before people spend a lot of time > on coding is discussion about what the project should look like. If people > are interested in this, I set up a discussion list on Yahoo! groups, and a > few people actually subscribed. If there is still interest in discussion > about what the project should look like, I think I'm ready to go on that > if people still think my experience with the existing rc system is worth > including. > I am interested.
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