[BUGS] Trends on FreeBSD

[Edwin Groothuis]

Forwarded from somebody who is at the EuroBSDCon in Cambridge (UK)
right now:

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As you all know, all the really cool people are in Cambridge, trying
to chew their way through the copious amount of combinatorial
sandwiches and gratuitous amounts of chocholate cake Rwatson is
feeding us.

I think there are about 60-70 people here at the devsummit, both
old and new faces, but appearantly Sam@ and I have been specifically
lodged in the VOP[1] section of the Robinsson College.

I won't get into the technical details and TODO lists from here,
other people will cover that in plenty of details now and later.
(See: http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD9, get hacking!)

What dawned on me this afternoon, is how different the mood is here
than devsummits past.

I think there is a new spring in the step of FreeBSD.

The old, 1990-style, decision adverse, semi-depressed, "we're all
going to die", internally conflicted, FreeBSD project is gone.

I have not heard "what is core doing about it ?" except as a cheap laugh.

Come to think of it, the core members seem to be having a good time,
and do not sneak around guiltily, trying to find find space-time
for a secret meeting to deal with some pseudo-crisis.

Decisions seem to be taken without paintbuckets and bikesheds[2].

I have counted about ten people, who have told about interesting
stuff they have done with FreeBSD, as part of their education which
is great.  Way to go, both to students and professors[3].

In a couple of hours, we'll wrap up be trying to reproduce a
bottleneck bug related to navigation on the rivers/canals here,
capping what I consider the best devsummit I have attended in a
long time.

FreeBSD dying ?

F'get it!  Not here.  Not now.

Poul-Henning

[1] Very Old Person ?

[2] The Architect appearantly sidestepped that issue for this building,
the bikeshed is white tent.

[3] How many professors do we have in the project by now ? 

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