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From: "Todd Goodman" <tsg1@earthlink.net>
To: <sjm@judgement.com>, "'Christopher Faylor'" <cgf@cygnus.com>
Cc: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: RE: Cygwin participation threshold
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 23:02:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002301be6268$1ec06a40$0301a8c0@tgoodman8> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990228230200.dMUPpHv22iIzm6Tu20cIgiTgS_3jIp6aHXW7PFo4qG0@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199902261627.LAA18993@brocade.nexen.com>

> Steve Morris writes:
[SNIP]
> Personal note: I attempted to sign up for the cygwin developers
> mailing list. I wasn't ready to commit to specific work but I wanted
> to get a feel for the level of mutual support and how the team
> interacted. I intended to silently lurk a while and then step into a
> more active role as I found a place to contribute. Apparently my
> justification and commitment didn't seem strong enough because I was
> silently excluded. No explanation, no apology. I just wasn't added to
> the list. It didn't leave a good taste in my mouth or predispose me to
> step up my level of commitment to this particular freeware project.

I had the same experience.  A request for more information (which I
forwarded) but no response after that.

I can certainly understand wanting to keep usage questions, etc from
the developers list and I believe it's a reasonable rule to keep the
list restricted to those who contribute.

However, one of the best ways to get your feet wet and find a place
*to* contribute is to lurk on a developers list for a while.

As is likely the case with most who aren't active contributors, it is
available time at this point that keeps me from contributing more.

If I was able to lurk on the developers list then I could more easily
judge what I might be able to work on.  If something looked like it
would fit with my available time then I might be able to contribute.
If I knew I might have more available time, I could see about something
else.

As it is now, I have no idea what even requires more work.  Everything
works well for me.  :-)

Just my $.02.

Thanks for all the good work,

Todd Goodman

[SNIP]
> Steve Morris
> sjm@judgement.com


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  reply	other threads:[~1999-02-28 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-02-24 10:55 Steve Morris
     [not found] ` < 199902241855.NAA16459@brocade.nexen.com >
1999-02-24 12:40   ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-24 13:13     ` Re[2]: " Paul Sokolovsky
     [not found]       ` < 2965.990224@is.lg.ua >
1999-02-24 13:21         ` Christopher Faylor
     [not found]           ` < 19990224162212.A27405@cygnus.com >
1999-02-25 22:51             ` Geoffrey Noer
     [not found]               ` < 19990225225149.A1388@cygnus.com >
1999-02-26  7:26                 ` Larry Hall
1999-02-28 23:02                   ` Larry Hall
1999-02-28 23:02               ` Geoffrey Noer
1999-02-26  2:55           ` Re[2]: " Paul Sokolovsky
1999-02-28 23:02             ` Paul Sokolovsky
1999-02-28 23:02           ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02       ` Re[2]: " Paul Sokolovsky
     [not found]     ` < 19990224154034.E26668@cygnus.com >
1999-02-24 13:50       ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-28 23:02         ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-26  8:27       ` Steve Morris
     [not found]         ` < 199902261627.LAA18993@brocade.nexen.com >
1999-02-27  7:49           ` Todd Goodman [this message]
1999-02-28 23:02             ` Todd Goodman
1999-02-28 23:02         ` Steve Morris
1999-02-26  8:55       ` Steve Morris
1999-02-28 23:02         ` Steve Morris
1999-02-28 23:02     ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-24 12:46 ` Re[2]: " Paul Sokolovsky
     [not found]   ` < 15947.990224@is.lg.ua >
1999-02-24 13:28     ` Christopher Faylor
     [not found]       ` < 19990224162911.A27461@cygnus.com >
1999-02-24 14:16         ` Mumit Khan
1999-02-28 23:02           ` Mumit Khan
1999-02-26  1:21       ` Re[2]: " Paul Sokolovsky
1999-02-28 23:02         ` Paul Sokolovsky
1999-02-28 23:02       ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02   ` Re[2]: " Paul Sokolovsky
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Steve Morris
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-02-28 16:22 Christopher G. Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Christopher G. Faylor
1999-02-26  0:26 Bernard Dautrevaux
     [not found] ` < 8135911A809AD211AF6300A02480D175034922@iis000.microdata.fr >
1999-02-26  8:40   ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-28 23:02     ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Bernard Dautrevaux
1999-02-25 10:24 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
     [not found] ` < 004c01be60ee$09a84c20$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com >
1999-02-25 10:36   ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-28 23:02     ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-02-25 10:09 Bernard Dautrevaux
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Bernard Dautrevaux
1999-02-24 13:43 Ken Thompson
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Ken Thompson
1999-02-22 20:54 Tom St Denis
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Tom St Denis
1999-02-22 13:00 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-02-22  9:10 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
     [not found] ` < 008401be5e87$f1dcd510$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com >
1999-02-22 11:38   ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-28 23:02     ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-02-19  6:36 Cygwin B20 - fseek under gcc fails to reposition on text files Christopher Faylor
1999-02-22  3:26 ` Re[2]: " Paul Sokolovsky
     [not found]   ` < 13561.990222@is.lg.ua >
1999-02-22  8:55     ` Cygwin participation threshold DJ Delorie
     [not found]       ` < 199902221654.LAA07362@envy.delorie.com >
1999-02-22 10:33         ` Carl Zmola
     [not found]           ` < 19990222183222023.AAA254@carl_zmola >
1999-02-22 11:21             ` Fergus Henderson
1999-02-28 23:02               ` Fergus Henderson
1999-02-22 12:32             ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-28 23:02               ` DJ Delorie
1999-02-24  0:08             ` Christopher Faylor
     [not found]               ` < 19990223214848.A23525@cygnus.com >
1999-02-24  5:51                 ` Fergus Henderson
     [not found]                   ` < 19990225005148.53402@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU >
1999-02-24  9:18                     ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-24 19:23                       ` Weiqi Gao
     [not found]                         ` < 36D4C298.32C1C355@a.crl.com >
1999-02-25  0:23                           ` Fergus Henderson
1999-02-25  6:01                             ` Weiqi Gao
1999-02-28 23:02                               ` Weiqi Gao
1999-02-28 23:02                             ` Fergus Henderson
1999-02-28 23:02                         ` Weiqi Gao
     [not found]                       ` < 19990224121846.A25762@cygnus.com >
1999-02-25  0:14                         ` Fergus Henderson
     [not found]                           ` < 19990225191420.16813@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU >
1999-02-25  1:00                             ` Lam Pui Yuen
     [not found]                               ` < Pine.BSI.3.95.990225170005.16688A-100000@topaz.hknet.com >
1999-02-25  1:09                                 ` Lam Pui Yuen
1999-02-28 23:02                                   ` Lam Pui Yuen
1999-02-28 23:02                               ` Lam Pui Yuen
1999-02-28 23:02                           ` Fergus Henderson
1999-02-28 23:02                       ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02                   ` Fergus Henderson
1999-02-24 10:37                 ` Carl Zmola
     [not found]                   ` < 19990224183738302.AAA218@carl_zmola >
1999-02-24 10:44                     ` Christopher Faylor
     [not found]                       ` < 19990224134450.B26262@cygnus.com >
1999-02-24 10:48                         ` Carl Zmola
1999-02-28 23:02                           ` Carl Zmola
1999-02-28 23:02                       ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02                   ` Carl Zmola
1999-02-28 23:02               ` Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02           ` Carl Zmola
1999-02-28 23:02       ` DJ Delorie

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