On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 03:05:05PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: >I say move the discussion elsewhere. I have put up with it for now, but >it really needs to go so we can get back on topic here. > >Of course, with the level of continuous contributions flowing from other >members of the Cygwin/XFree86 project, I can't hold out much hope for >this new project. Best of luck, but don't think much will happen after >the excitement of picking a name, license, etc. Of course, I love to be >proven wrong with oodles of code.
This was my impression, too, after having experienced this many times in cygwin and other projects (the freevms and debian-win32 projects spring to mind). This is following the pattern by by discussing the trivial things like "what do we call it" and "where do we put it". But, eventually all of the people who think it is a really good idea but have no actual experience to contribute will quiet down and you'll be left with the fact that no one has time to start a major new project. Actually, if you want an existing mailing list to discuss this on, you can use [EMAIL PROTECTED] That was Suhaib's list but he's indicated that he's had to move on and the project is basically dead. The name even makes a certain amount of sense. You can use that for the discussion until an actual project name is chosen. At that point, I'm happy to set up what is required on sources.redhat.com. Don't let my pessimism (or Harold's) stop you if you are fired up about this but please be aware that this will require substantial work, probably by more than one person. You'll probably need a project lead, too, if you want this to succeed. cgf
