<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 2:07 PM, John Marino <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dragonflybsd@marino.st" target="_blank">dragonflybsd@marino.st</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im"><br></div>I would not classify much of this work as maintenance.<br>
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The semaphores is pthreads work -- nobody has touched threads in years<br>
from what I can see. Not trivial.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>"Maintenance" does not mean easy. "Maintenance" means we're not introducing anything new. This list is all, or nearly all, things already present in FreeBSD. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I'd like to have projects in DragonFly that are unique to DragonFly. We have a more flexible group of developers and a more straightforward code base to deal with; this has already paid off for SMP development and Matt's Hammer work. We've got the space to accommodate new work.</div>
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