From: ggp AT informix DOT com (Guy Gascoigne - Piggford) Subject: Re: Beta-19 and configurations.... 10 Feb 1998 20:06:36 -0800 Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980210113625.00a87940.cygnus.gnu-win32@pop.pdx.informix.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: cgf AT bbc DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com At 01:43 PM 2/10/98 GMT, Christopher Faylor wrote: >This suggestion is like 99% of the, um, stuff on this mailing list. It >is full of ideas for "somebody else" to implement. This list is full of >managers but there are very very very few workers. > >Since you mentioned Linux, allow me to point out that the model that >worked very well for Linux does not seem to be happening here. In Linux >development there was a slow ramping up as people came on board, >contributing their talents to the project in terms of *code* and actual >useful work. If a Makefile needed to be rewritten, it was rewritten. >If a script was required, someone wrote it. If a feature was needed >somebody added it. > >In the cygwin model, people contribute their opinions. If a Makefile >needs to be rewritten, somebody complains that the Makefile is not >working as it should. If a script is required, somebody is amazed that >it is not already in existence. If a feature is needed, somebody claims >that they are now moving to OpenNT because it is missing. > >I wish I understood why this is. It would be nice to have an active >community like Linux which had a core of helpful and knowledgable people >willing to pitch in and fix things. Alas, that does not seem to be the >case here. Part of this could be that when we ask how we can contribute, we get no response! I've asked at least twice how I could pass on my set of changes to bash so that they could be further intergrated (or canned if they aren't appropriate). Total response - NIL. After a while you just give up, fix it for yourself and resign yourself to having to fix it again later. Guy -- Guy Gascoigne - Piggford (ggp AT informix DOT com) Software Engineer, Informix Software, Inc. (Portland, Oregon) - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".