Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS is about to happen

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 10/03/2009 05:20 AM, John Poelstra wrote:

> 
> Sounds great to me, but would other members go for it? :)  Maybe this is
> along the lines of the "Features SIG" that someone suggested a ways back.

A important oddness of the feature process is that it is not actually
necessary for the feature to be in the distribution. So you send a nag
mail, feature owners ignores it, you "drop" the feature and the
functionality is still there. So unless the feature owner is actually
convinced it is worth the effort, he or she can let the feature be
"dropped" and continue just working on whatever they are.  I don't know
whether this can be fixed or is considered a problem but I think we
should see if we can do it in a different way.

Rahul