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From: "McCunney, Dennis" <DMcCunney AT roper DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: ksh93? -- also u/win question
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 15:14:13 -0500 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 12:43 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: ksh93? -- also u/win question
> 
> I wonder if we should start announcing successfull ports to freshmeat
> or slashdot.

Yes.  Along with a periodic announcement of what packages are currently
shipped as part of Cygwin, and what third-party ports are known to exist for
Cygwin but for whatever reason aren't/can't be distributed with Cygwin
itself. 
 
> I did announce the last Cygwin DLL update on freshmeat.
> 
> It would be nice for this project to get a little more 
> exposure, I think.

Very.  Open source is neat, and folks like Eric Raymond have analysed the
development process. But one thing I haven't seen Eric or other writers
comment on is how you get folks to participate in the first place.  Just
putting up a project on SourceForge won't do it.

From what I've seen, people get involved because it is something they can
use themselves, or because there is a major coolness factor and some
bragging rights associated with the project.  Cygwin is cool enough that I
think more folks might be interested in hacking on it, once the word got
out. 

> cgf
______
Dennis

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