Jordan Hubbard Resigns from FreeBSD Core 344
SteelX was one of many readers to cite this story in the Daily Daemon News which reports that "Jordan Hubbard is resigning from the FreeBSD core. Jordan is a founding member of the FreeBSD project." Note: According to this email, Hubbard is definitely not quitting FreeBSD; he's just changing the nature of his involvement with it.
I'm just not having any fun, really... (Score:0, Interesting)
Wait, I'm not Jordan Hubbard... Not even the same middle initial. What was I thinking? Uhh, never mind.
Sorry to see him go... (Score:1, Interesting)
form he does today. The rest of the core team
is really strong, but clearly his involvement
will be missed. An interesting question for the
Linux side of things will be how long some of their
mainstays (Torvalds, Cox, et al) will hang in.
Everyone needs a change of direction sometime--
no one expects these people to want to do the same
thing for the rest of their lives, and it would
be unrealistic to do so.
A question for freebsd people (Score:0, Interesting)
However, I see very little projects from the FreeBSD community. Of course there's the occasional release of version 3.2 or whatever, but that's about it. No cool software for it.
So, my question is this: why the lack of enthusiasm? Hubbard resigning is just the latest sympton I've noticed. Is it because of the controlled development model? Is it because of the poor quality of development tools? Is it because there's no companies involved?
It seems to me that without a little more enthusiasm, FreeBSD won't go anywhere. If you want to give Linux a run for it's money, you can't just sit on your butt.
Re:A question for freebsd people (Score:0, Interesting)
If you are honest you will have to accept that FreeBSD has no significant third party support. Native state of the art development tools are not available. Windows, Solaris, Linux, and just about everyone else has more tool suppot to offer the developer. There really isn't enough tool support in FreeBSD for myself and others to make it worth our effort.
Re:Really. Thanks jkh. (Score:5, Interesting)
Anyone know how we could send jkh a nice case of beer and a pizza in return for the great work?