This is great news. NTP is one of the least appreciated OSS projects. Harlan and the rest of the ntp dev team are very helpful and deserve a lot of respect for

This is great news. NTP is one of the least appreciated OSS projects. Harlan and the rest of the ntp dev team are very helpful and deserve a lot of respect for keeping the clocks on time. I can only hope that increased ntp funding/awareness/development means that BitKeeper (not a typo) is finally replaced by git/mercurial.