Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/02/08/15:14:49
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 12:43 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: ksh93? -- also u/win question
>
> I wonder if we should start announcing successfull ports to freshmeat
> or slashdot.
Yes. Along with a periodic announcement of what packages are currently
shipped as part of Cygwin, and what third-party ports are known to exist for
Cygwin but for whatever reason aren't/can't be distributed with Cygwin
itself.
> I did announce the last Cygwin DLL update on freshmeat.
>
> It would be nice for this project to get a little more
> exposure, I think.
Very. Open source is neat, and folks like Eric Raymond have analysed the
development process. But one thing I haven't seen Eric or other writers
comment on is how you get folks to participate in the first place. Just
putting up a project on SourceForge won't do it.
From what I've seen, people get involved because it is something they can
use themselves, or because there is a major coolness factor and some
bragging rights associated with the project. Cygwin is cool enough that I
think more folks might be interested in hacking on it, once the word got
out.
> cgf
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Dennis
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