Why I am retiring from contributing to FreeBSD

[Monviech (Cedrik)]

See you in Brussels, possibly?

Right now I do not have any plans to go there. But if you ever want to meet in person, I am living close where you live :)

[chrcoluk]

[...]I do feel the decision all those years ago to keep the custom multi threaded PF over keeping up with OpenBSD PF has continued to hunt FreeBSD.[...]

Improving FreeBSD's pf is an obvious goal, but pining for OpenBSD's implementation doesn't seem realistic. Unfortunately any attempts at real improvement would run straight into the politics being discussed here.

Yep, for sure.

[franco]

See you in Brussels, possibly?

Sure. :)

I guess most of these issues are self inflicted due to the medium of internet.

I disagree. I think people underestimate their impact of dismissiveness in a world where we share and grow together and it's hard to back out of a corner eventually.  At some point you're so locked in that any attempt of open communication seems like a neglect of your life's work.

Here are some helpful guidelines we can all benefit from:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-ten-commandments-of-egoless-programming/

The way commit bits work is that an existing committer (anyone with FreeBSD.org email) sends core@ an email proposing someone, and then core votes on that.

It's kind of amazing that nobody ever took the time to explain it with a single sentence in over a decade to me. It kind of makes sense things went the way they went then. Neglect only gets us so far, but it sure is the easiest thing to do.


Cheers,
Franco

[Greg_E]

Here are some helpful guidelines we can all benefit from:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-ten-commandments-of-egoless-programming/

#9 applies to sysadmins too, you need to be out in the world to see what the users are experiencing so you can solve the problems they describe.