X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:50:10 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin on FLOSS Weekly Message-ID: <20100120085010.GO2402@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4B569221.3010400@tlinx.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple