:Hello, : :I found this message on the NetBSD mailing list and it :can be quite interesting for reading. It says about :negative stuff in the NetBSD project and manners for :fixing the problems of the project. : :I hope it can be useful for read to others, for me is :quite interesting. He mentions DragonFly, so I think :is worth mentioning it here because of that ;) : :http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2006/08/30/0016.html : :Regards, :timofonic
It's very interesting and should serve as a caution both that no open-source project lasts forever, and no open-source project ever truely dies, either. What happens is that people move on, and others fill the gaps and, eventually, even if it winds up being 20 years later, the best pieces of the project morph into something else entirely. For my part, I have a very clear set of personal goals that I want to achieve with DragonFly, but regardless of my own goals the concept of 'getting behind' in various areas is one that we, facing similarly low numbers of developers, have to deal with every day. In many respects, the interest in the DragonFly project is very heavily supported by the work that everyone is doing to keep the project up to date as it is by my lofty clustering goals. In fact, I would say that 75% of the interest in our project has nothing to do with my project goals but instead are directly associated with work being done by our relatively small community. I truely appreciate that effort because it allows me to focus on the part that is most near and dear to my own heart. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>