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I can validate what you said - I have read that in several places. I saw it as a minor difference in stratgey, perhaps its greater than I gave it credit for... Anthony On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, David Kramer wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, James Hunter Heinlen wrote: > > > > I saw something I missed earlier - its in this thread somewhere.... It > > > says that Linux has very little official oversight - although I have never > > > contributed code to the kernel I have heard that is not the case. I have > > > heard the maintainer will readily not accept code that isn't up to par. > > ... > > > Did I miss something somewhere? > > > > Perhaps. Perhaps it is a matter of perspective. By 'Official > > Oversight', I assumed the author meant oversight by someone in > > authority outside of the coding group, such as a non-technical > > manager/boss, or some standards setting agency. Perhaps it was > > something particular to that environment, but when I was a technical > > consultant in DuPont, official oversight meant outside influence, that > > we would be judged by someone who was not one of us. Since I was in > > the Division of Commercial Explosives, this meant that the ATF, DoT, > > DoE, DoI BoM, OSHA, MSHA, and on rare occasion, the DoD held that > > role. > > It was I, BLU's official instigator and starter of flame wars, that said > it. It's my understanding that, while people from all over > contribute to the source code of FreeBSD, there is a relatively small > group that writes most of it, and they go over what others submit much > more closely. > > Linux has some people, like Alan Cox, that fit this function, but there > seem to be lots and lots of "keepers of the code", each managing their own > part. You occasionally hear of one codemaster disappering from the face > of the planet or becomming unreachable or unresponsive. In fact, there > was a thread on the Red Hat mailing list last week. > > Again, I don't know these things to be fact. I guess I should join a > FreeBSD mailing list. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > DDDD David Kramer david at thekramers.net http://thekramers.net > DK KD > DKK D Isn't the universe an amazing place? > DK KD I wouldn't live anywhere else. > DDDD J'Kar > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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