Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
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I do not think we need a compromise we need a different system. We
need one that preserves continuity of support for existing systems
while the new releases are testedin a way that does not adversely
impact them. The priority needs to be the current user base not a
desire to rush a new release out the door at all costs.
Over the last few days I have read a very good book that sheds a lot
of light on this "Beyond Software Architecture" by Luke Huffman
(Addison Wesley, 2003, ISBN: 0-201-77954-8) [I am sure it is somewhere
on the p2p nets]. His thesis is that there are two side by side
architectures both of which must be in sync for a really good
solution. There is the technical and the marketing architectures.
Disclaimer he a decidedly MS/mass market view.
The port freeze might make a lot of sense from the technical
architecture but it makes horrible sense from the marketing. I think
the FreeBSD community would do well to consider his main points in any
major redo of the current standard way of doing things.
Yes, but if I am going to do things from a MS/Marketing perspective, how
about this: Maybe the way to fix the problem is not by changing the way
we do things, but by changing expectations.
For some reason, people contributing to this mailing list are getting
frustrated because some of the applications are now getting to be about
a month old. But why should we expect to have the latest and greatest
in version number of application? It is because this is what we usually
have, and so a periodic hiccup is out of the ordinary and so frustrates us.
But suppose you are running Red Hat Linux instead. Do you also get the
latest and greatest in this super timely manner? (To be honest this is
not a rhetorical question, but my guess is "no.")
In fact, who feels this frustration. Is it the ordinary user? Or is it
us port maintainers who wish they could get their more recent PR's accepted?
Surely this frustration is felt by us because we have information that
things could be a little more up to date. But if we weren't in the
know, then we wouldn't be so upset.
Stephen
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