Unruh wrote:
> I had thought that this discussion group was a group to
> discuss time on computers using the ntp protocol
That appears to be happening, (almost all of the time).
> What I would like to see is a dispassionate examination
> of the strengths and weaknesses of the various approaches,
> and have the reference implimentation use the very best.
Dispassionate?
I suppose, however people are involved.
Since NTP is open source, I also don't see any reason why you,
(or anyone else) could not make the changes they wish for.
Rather than waiting for a maintainer/developer/committer/...
to become "passionate" enough about the ideas at hand
to volunteer their free time to make codes changes,
and test to see if it is better (if they can).
... or if the NTP testing lab doesn't have any systems
that behave that way, then wait till others, that do
have platforms that the results of the code changes
could actually be seen on, to test the changes, ...
From occasionally following some of the NTP bug traks,
it is obvious that some developers are much more interested
in a giving particular issue than others, and take it upon
themselves to research, test, modify, retest, ... the issue
to their satisfaction. (Like many open source projects.)
There are even some with an Assignee of "MaintainerNeeded";
Which might indicate that perhaps not enough people are
donating their free time, to cover all of the current
NTP development needs.
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