Mail Archives: cygwin/2010/01/20/03:50:28
On Jan 19 21:39, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> On 01/19/2010 09:18 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> > I think the bottom line is that the the core cygwin
> >developers are good at their jobs because they are strongly
> >technically oriented and, *usually*, people focusing all their
> >energy on their craft don't have time to be "social". Thus they
> >are not inclined to have a desire to engage in such a venture.
> >
> > But this is just my impression. Besides, what would they say
> >"cygwin is great, use it, we'd love you to use it, but patches
> >will be more appreciated?", it really isn't their public
> >style(well the last part might be :-)... but that's just my
> >uninformed 2 cents.
> >
> > You wanted an answer.... I've never met any of the cygwin
> >developers in RL, and can't really speak for any of them.
> I sincerely invite you to take a listen to FLOSS Weekly then.
> Hundreds of Open Source, really geeky developers that is, projects
> have been discussed like Jython, FreeBSD, pfSense, Puppet, BioPerl,
> FoxyProxy, etc. There are true geeks there going into depth and
> guts, etc. trust me! I'm often amazed when a new episode is
> announced I'll think "Hmmm... I wonder how that will be interesting"
> only to find as I listen to it that it is interesting and that I
> learn something from it. Randall's standard question to develops
> with tongue firmly in cheek is "OK, Emacs or vi?".
Interviews in English? Live? With actual listeners? Uh, no, thanks.
Corinna
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