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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!newshub.sdsu.edu!saturn!larryr From: larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu (Larry Riedel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD Date: 1 Jul 1995 09:19:50 GMT Organization: San Diego State University Lines: 41 Message-ID: <3t33vq$5se@pandora.sdsu.edu> References: <3qfhhv$7uc@titania.pps.pgh.pa.us> <3sfcam$12n@pandora.sdsu.edu> <id.M43L1.5K8@nmti.com> <3snkrt$fjk@pandora.sdsu.edu> <id.FB7L1.JG6@nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: saturn.sdsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Peter da Silva (peter@nmti.com) wrote: > Larry Riedel <larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu> wrote: > > > No, more to the point, if you were in that developer's shoes, what would > > > you do? > > > Wait for a heads-up from someone else on the team that there is an > > article in the newsgroup which I should look at, and then go read > > it and maybe post a followup. > > Now then, where do we get this volunteer to send all the heads-ups? Where do we get this volunteer to write the operating system? :) > In the meantime, if you were in the developer's shoes, what would YOU do? *I* would not be writing code if I was not going to be available to provide technical support for it - to USENET directly when necessary, and to the documentation and technical support groups (in whatever incarnation they happened to be manifested). So I would find the time to read the newsgroups and post when I thought I had something important to contribute that no one else had yet; I would also let other members of the team know if I saw an article that I thought they ought to take a look at - as I would hope they would do for me. I would do these things because I think they are as critical to the project as writing the software, and to me the success of the project is paramount. Since I would expect most of the common questions and answers to either be in a FAQ/HowTo or the archives, or to be answerable by one or more of the users who have had similar experiences, I would not expect the load on me of looking for and answering new questions to be very great, unless I had just released some significant changes to the software, in which case I would want to get feedback and cover my ass anyway. :) I think that the FreeBSD development team and community on the whole do an outstanding job of providing support to the users. I also think that it could be even better and it is getting better. Larry