Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:19:54 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Donations Page Message-ID: <20050111151954.GB12330@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <6 DOT 2 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 1 DOT 20050111212104 DOT 031eec50 AT mail DOT ros DOT com DOT au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.1.20050111212104.031eec50@mail.ros.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:34:46PM +1100, Errol Smith wrote: >I'm glad to see this (my machine at work is a hyperthreading machine >btw) and will throw in some change shortly, but I ask that as well as >setting up that page you do some or all of the following so people can >find it through means other than that one message in the mailing list.. >:) >- add a news item about it in the news section of http://cygwin.com/ I have enough misgivings about doing this at all without putting it on the main cygwin page but I did plan on doing that at some point if I got links to others for contributions. I don't feel right about putting up a page which just asks for money specifically for me and me alone. >- also, it would be nice if you expanded on the "Donations for a >hyperthreading system" description. People unfamiliar with this >particular issue (problems with hyperthreaded machines) might not feel >so inclined to throw money your way if they think it's only to resolve >one single bug. Also they may not realise that "cgf" is yourself, and >that "cgf" is one of the primary cygwin developers/maintainers. > >Possibly something like: "Donations towards a hyperthreading system for >cygwin's primary developer, in order to resolve issues found on current >hardware and as a dedicated cygwin development machine" (the second >part doesn't have to be completely true ;-) There are links on the page which show "who's who". And, I was only looking for donations for this particular problem. If you don't know what "hyperthreading" is then you don't have the problem and there is no reason to donate. Ditto "cgf". cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/