Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2000/04/17/19:04:04
On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 12:42:19AM -0700, Mo DeJong wrote:
>Ok, now I getting frustrated. When I first signed up for
>cygwin-developers I thought, here is a list where I can post
>"developer" type questions about cygwin without getting a lot of newbie
>answers.
>
>After a couple of postings, I started getting responses like, "That is
>not directly related to the cygwin dll, please post it to
>cygwin AT sourceware instead".
>
>Then after posting questions to cygwin AT sourceware, I got responses like
>"Please don't discuss the net release anywhere but cygwin-developers".
Which was followed by an apology after I realized that a lot of other
people were doing this too.
However, since you brought it up, what concerned me about your post to
the cygwin mailing list was that you referred to *using* the "new
release". That is different than mentioning that a new release is
coming. It is apt to lead people into thinking that there is something
for them to download which can easily generate confusion.
In general, I would like people just to consider the confusion factor.
If you are going to casually mention something on the cygwin mailing
list that is really only common knowledge on cygwin-developers you're
apt to confuse people.
I was just asking that everybody think twice before moving a discussion
from cygwin-developers to cygwin.
You seem to have taken this personally, but I was really reacting to a
few months worth of incidents. I've seen posts that paraphrase,
incorrectly, discussion that has gone on here. I've seen posts that
Cc'ed cygwin-developers and cygwin.
Again, it's not a tremendously big deal but I would very much like to
keep this mailing list a clueful zone. If there is a lot of traffic
back and forth between cygwin and cygwin-developers I don't think that
it is likely to continue to be the case.
cgf
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