From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexander Viro To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] design issues in operating systems In-Reply-To: <200112041905.OAA14111@augusta.math.psu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 16:59:07 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2fb8c782-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Dan Cross wrote: > In article you write: > >Hmm... I doubt that "for everyone to contribute" is a good thing, > >but seeing is a different story... > > Nonsense. Everyong is free to contribute. But, contribution is not > synonymous with acceptance. well, provided that your .procmailrc is well-maintained - sure. You _really_ don't want to see the... contributions from Qlogics SCSI folks. Or Intel folks who do NIC drivers. There are less harmful ways to take a second look at your last meal... > The labs might run into another problem if development source is there > for all to pick at. Surely they will receive a ton of patches for things > that they're already aware of, have already fixed but not synced to the > outside fileserver, or are still experimental and changing rapidly. The > cost in terms of time and resources to sift through what comes in from > the outside could be non-trivial. _That_ is easy to deal with - /* XXX: Yes, I know. It's crap. Working on that. */ is usually enough for stuff that stays for a week or so and for very recent breakage you have not too may places you've just touched, so sorting is not a big deal...