Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com From: "Stephen C. Biggs" To: Christopher Faylor , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 11:02:30 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: volunteers gratefully accepted Reply-to: s_c_biggs AT bigfoot DOT com Message-ID: <3A487AC6.23434.C99A7@localhost> In-reply-to: <20001225223120.A7296@redhat.com> References: <20001221170558 DOT 89653 DOT qmail AT web9612 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com>; from jreidthompson AT yahoo DOT com on Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 09:05:58AM -0800 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) I am a systems programmer of >25 years experience... I am very hot on the idea of Cygwin, so I am already doing some things such as porting already written applications (BIND, RPM, etc...) I am still waiting for my "porters" directory on franken.de which hasn't either been granted or denied. Contact me privately and let me know what the priorities are... In this instance, I would need "marching orders" because I don't want to be in conflict with what is already in place... On 25 Dec 2000, at 22:31, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I appreciate everyone who has contacted me after this email but I was > kind of hoping that people would peruse the project and try to figure > out where they could make a difference. > > If you are a C programmer, then maybe you might want to think about > becoming a package maintainer or augmenting some of the cygwin > utilties. > > If you understand web stuff then look at the web pages and think about > how you'd like to contribute. > > If you are a documentation expert then maybe the cygwin docs will > entice you. > > I'd rather avoid being a manager as much as I can. I already do that > in my real job and I'd rather not have to spend time giving people > assignments externally, too. I'd rather have self-motivated > volunteers. > > An excellent example of this is David Starks-Browning. I asked for > volunteers, he stepped up and said "I'd like to do the FAQ" and he's > been doing an excellent job ever since. > > That's what I'm looking for. > > I have no objections to someone who is looking to volunteer asking the > rest of the list for ideas, given their skill set. Maybe I'll even > join in with ideas. I just don't want to be giving marching orders if > I can help it. > > cgf > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 09:05:58AM -0800, Reid Thompson wrote: > >I would be willing to spend some free time trying to help. > >Unfortunately, I have little experience coding at the OS level. Most > >of my work has been business level applications. 90%+ in C. If > >there is a portion of a project that you feel that I may be of help > >on let me know. > > > >reid > > > >--- Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>From time to time I do a google search for "cygwin" to see what kind > >>of links are out there referring to the project. > >> > >>I'm always somewhat shocked by the number of pages which reference > >>cygwin. I'm almost equally shocked to see that some of the pages > >>are actually maintained by frequent posters here. > >> > >>Given the number of times that we've asked for volunteers, I wonder > >>if we've made it clear that we'll accept volunteers for any part of > >>the project. > >> > >>For instance, if you are a whiz in web design, we'll gladly accept > >>input on the web pages. > >> > >>If you are a world class author, we'd love to put you to work on the > >>documentation. > >> > >>If you think that you can explain things better than the FAQ or that > >>there deserves to be more focused explanations given on some topics, > >>we can easily give you access to our web pages to collaborate with > >>the current FAQ, documentation, and web people. > >> > >>I guess what I'm saying is that I certainly understand the desire to > >>put your name up in lights on your own web page. And, it is > >>gratifying for me to see links to cygwin all over the place. But, > >>I'd like people to consider possibly also donating their time and > >>skill to the project itself. > >> > >>It won't be as glamorous. It won't be as easy. You won't be able > >>to say *anything* that you want or make any changes that you want. > >>I, and other people, will probably have opinions on what you do and > >>will occasionally veto stuff or suggest changes. > >> > >>But, if you do contribute, your work will benefit a lot of people; > >>arguably more than will benefit from your personal web page. And, I > >>pledge that I'll add your name to the "Who are we" part of the > >>Cygwin web page. > >> > >>If the idea of contributing directly to the cygwin project still > >>doesn't thrill you, then at least consider adding your web page to > >>the "post new news" section of http://cygwin.com/ so that we can > >>start adding links to helpful sites. > >> > >>Anyway, don't get me wrong. I appreciate any work that anyone does > >>towards helping this project. However, I hope that people will > >>consider the somewhat thankless task of working directly towards > >>improving the project itself by working on some of the parts of its > >>infrastructure whether that is the web page, the source code, or the > >>documentation. > >> > >>Christopher Faylor > >>Cygwin Engineering Manager > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple