[1836] in NetBSD-Development
Re: Netscape-3.01
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Thu Jan 28 13:02:22 1999
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:00:44 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@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: <199901280008.TAA12752@dcl>
It may not be necessary to resort to that. I don't have an overwork
problem, I have an information problem :) Erik's message gave me some of
the key information and reminded me that I may be missing some other vital
resources. Hold that thought and stay tuned.
-Todd
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
>
> 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
>
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