Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/03/03/02:39:52
I think I need a vacation from cygwin. (Actually, I just need a
vacation, period. But that's not in the cards; more 20 hour days are.
</mcnulty>) I'll check back in a week or so, but don't expect to hear
much from me between now and then. (Try not to sigh in relief all at once)
Heck, I'll probably even use the nntp gateway to check the list!
Later,
Chuck
Charles Wilson wrote:
> I apologize to all concerned. There *was* a communication problem.
>
> As I now understand it,
> Lars created the site/software that allows MANY mailing lists to be
> gatewayed to nntp. (I thought this was a special thing created just for
> cygwin. I was wrong. Sorry for the confusion.)
>
> Somebody else "hooked up" cygwin's mailing lists to Lars' gmane
> system. (I thought Lars did this. I was wrong. Sorry for the confusion.)
>
> A third person posted the announcement on the cygwin webpage, since
> nobody could figure out who the person in step #2 was.
>
> Everybody now knows that there is an nntp-maillist gateway.
>
> Hooray for collaboration. Let's all go write some code now.
>
> --Chuck
>
>
> Scott Evans wrote:
>
>> I've subscribed to this list for some time now, and it still surprises
>> me when the project admins (and heavy contributors) come down on folks
>> so hard, because they're not contributing their own fixes, or not
>> understanding what someone wrote, or whatever. This last thread about
>> the news server really slammed it home for me... to an outsider there was
>> an obvious communication barrier, and Lars (who's quite an upstanding
>> open
>> source guy himself, as the author of Gnus for Emacs) gets flamed from all
>> sides when in fact he really *doesn't* have anything to do with Cygwin,
>> and was allowing one of his other (open source) projects to be used
>> for Cygwin's benefit. Sad.
>>
>> Guys, I realize Cygwin is open source and that you all work hard
>> to improve it, and that you'd love to have people contribute more.
>> Being nasty ain't the way to do it.
>>
>>
>> --
>> scott evans : www.antisleep.com
>>
>>
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