On July 21, 2019 6:05:28 AM GMT+03:00, bkfuth <bkf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >I have used OpenBSD, for years, in my computer security classes. I find >it best suited for these classes. The governance has never been an >issue. If you know what you are doing the OpenBSD community is a good >one.Stephen KolarsSent via the Samsung Galaxy Note® 4, an AT&T 4G LTE >smartphone > >-------- Original message -------- >From: Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> >Date: 7/20/19 21:44 (GMT-06:00) >To: freen...@gmail.com >Cc: misc@openbsd.org >Subject: Re: OpenBSD Project > >Hi,Avstin Kim wrote:> My question is, how is the OpenBSD Project >governance structured;There is no formal structure and no >"governance".In day to day business, code owners in parts of the system >decidewhat is done (for example, espie@ in pkg_add(1), myself in >mandoc(1),claudio@ in OpenBGPD, gilles@ in OpenSMTPd, jsing@ and beck@ >inLibreSSL, tj@ redgarding the website, and so on; in some areas,more >than one person owns the code, sometimes up to a handful).In general, >the people deciding ask themselves which is the besttechnical solution, >and if there is consensus among developers, itis done.In the rare cases >of serious disagreement that cannot be resolvedconsensually, or cannot >be resolved without excessive delay ordiscussion, deraadt@ reserves the >right to make a final decision,but that does not happen often.There is >no core team and certainly, there are never any elections.There are no >written rules whatsoever, and no introduction of anywritten rules is >planned for the future. The OpenBSD foundationhas absolutely no say >about any aspect of the OpenBSD project.None of all this is documented >anywhere because it doesn't matterfor users of the system.If your >choice of operating system depends on any kind of formalitiesrather >than on technical quality, OpenBSD is not the project youare looking >for.Yours, Ingo
I can only add that ,from all the mailing lists I'm subscribed , misc@openbsd is the most active mailing list. This means alot for me, and I suspect for anyone else using openBSD. Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov
