[1832] in NetBSD-Development
Re: Netscape-3.01
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Wed Jan 27 19:08:55 1999
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 19:08:42 -0500 (EST)
From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU>, Erik Nygren
<nygren@MIT.EDU>,
gisele@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU,
cwis-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: t. belton's message of Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:20:50 -0500 (EST),
<Pine.GSO.3.96L.990127110823.2564A-100000@department-of-alchemy.mit.edu>
Something to perhaps consider is whether we could enter into a
cooperative agreement with responsible folks within SIPB for supporting
the Linux and NetBSD netscape platforms. This would involve having some
kind of letter of understanding that they would be responsible for
keeping things up to date on those platforms, and in a clean fashion, or
suffer having those platforms desupported from infoagents. We would
then give them write access to arch/{linux,netbsd}, and make them
responsible for keeping those browsers in good order. If they don't
stay in good order, they get removed from the infoagents locker until
such time as SIPB or some other organization can convince us that they
would do a good job maintaining it.
This is just a strawman proposal, so I offer it just as a
thought. Obviously we would have to make sure there was someone in the
Linux and Netbsd community willing to take on this responsibility, and
we would have to make sure I/S was comfortable with allowing someone
else to maintain part of the infoagents locker. But as long as the
lines of responsibility were clearly drawn, I think this might be a
workable solution. It has the advantage of making it easier to maintain
a higher quality level for the non-I/S supported platforms, as well as
reducing the load on the I/S staffers that are charged with maintaining
the infoagents locker --- both of which I think we would all agree are
good things!
- Ted
