[haiku] Re: Non-BFS file system support

Hi,

> Stephan, I don't want to get into an old argument that's off topic for 
> this list. I just tossed up a blog entry in response to this at  
> https://www.raymondrodgers.com:444/blog/entry_26Nov2008170444.html . If 
> you or anyone want(s) to continue to discuss this, feel free to either 
> email me directly, or pop on over to the Themis lists; as I'm the 
> moderator there and they've been basically dead for years any ways, I 
> doubt there will be any significant backlash for going off topic. :-)

Thanks for your response!

Sorry for responding here instead of at the places you suggested, but I don't 
want to take the time currently to set myself up and respond elsewhere. Also I 
think such philosophical discussions about what motivates ourselves to code 
open source projects in our spare time are relevant on the general Haiku list. 
And that's of course what this is about. :-) Obviously, you are free to code on 
what you like! That's basically a large part of what pretty much every other 
Haiku developer does.

There is another aspect to it though, which is that people out there are 
following the project and have built up expectations of being able to use Haiku 
as their main OS hopefully soon. The same can be said about the very developers 
coding Haiku. We work in this together as a team towards a common goal, which 
is to be able to actually use Haiku. As such, we depend on each other and have 
hopes and expectations about each others contributions. We are making decisions 
together, be it for individual features or for the direction of the project, 
that we can all live with. This shows the team aspect of it and naturally, 
there are expectations and hopes involved that everyone spends the time in a 
way that moves the project forward. I fully realize that we don't have any 
right to expect anything from each other, but the feeling is still there 
somewhere. This just explains why I or others may sometimes put forward these 
result oriented, desperate arguments, while of course everyone is
  free to work on what is fun and interesting to them. When you say Haiku is 
beginning to get it's feet under itself, this is also a result of people like 
Axel, Ingo and others to sometimes do things which are not much fun at all, 
definitely does not interest them, but which need to get done. There are these 
two sides to it, I guess.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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