Re: Re: [UnixOS2] libc

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 06:27:00AM +0200, Andreas Buening wrote:
> The current problem is that even a one-line-change
> is a long-term and basically undoable project. If we get the stage
> that everbody can apply patches instead of writing his own emx clone
> then we've already made huge progress.

IMO, this stage is nothing.  The first usable stage: we need a
maintainer, who

 a) will provide a "linear" sequence of snapshots (instead of hundreds
    of "orthogonal" patches);

 b) will have power to say "no, I do not think I want to incorporate
    this in th current stage";

 c) will use the power of `b' to nag people to improve things;

 d) In (very rare?) situations when several patches - which he deems
    worthwhile - conflict, and he can't nag people to make them
    compatible, he will fix them.

"b" is the hardest part, since it assumes very deep attention to what
happens on the list.

Read my lips: without such a position filled, things would not work.

Just reiterating things again,
Ilya