Re: [MiNT] What's in, what's out?

[Frank Naumann <fnaumann@csmd2.cs.uni-magdeburg.de>]

Hello everybody!

> This is a list for developers, a forum whee they can discuss about things
> related to the development.

I never understand this list as a place for detailed kernel discussions.

> But what's the use of a such a forum if some developers do all the important
> discussion and decissions secretly by private mail?

Because it's faster and more efficient?

> OS>If anyone isn't happy with this situation, why don't those just
> OS>include the stuff they want themselves
> This means forking a new kernel tree.
> Do have only a slight idea how much work and time it needs to maintain an own
> kernel?
> And do you really want to split the few developers into competitive projects?

That's the point. Do you have any idea how much time it cost to discuss
here about every small change?

So I ask all of you, that's the definition of this list? What's the
strategy to discuss enhancements? How are conflicts solved? Is there
something like a voting? Who is allowed to vote? Everybody? What with
absent people?

I never seen a statement about that and if I follow this discussion right
it's time to define something like that.

And in this discussion I also missed statements about the goal of FreeMiNT.


For myself I don't like this discussion. I never thought that my work is
so contentious. I don't have the time and I don't want to discuss every
new feature or change here on the list. I do this in my spare time and it
make lot of fun. But for this I need some freedom.

Also Guido do it in his spare time and I think he do a great job. He tried
to port the complete init suite. If we force him to rewrite it completly
from scratch I'm sure he stop it because it's to much work. We don't have
enough power to maintain our own system specific stuff.

And yes, I make failures, nobody is perfect. But I make failures because
I *do* something for FreeMiNT.


Tschuess
   ...Frank

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