On Apr 11 15:03, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > >> > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Warren Young wrote: > >> >> If you think web code repository searching and a public bug tracker are > >> >> primary barriers to contribution, you aren't being honest with yourself. > >> >> They are nice, but not necessary. > >> > >> > I am honest with myself. I, as everyone have limited time. > >> > >> Seems like the limit on your time is very laxed. > >> For the time you wrote all the posts to this list, I've downloaded whole > >> Cygwin /cvs/src, found the offended string, patched the file, and it took > >> me 2 > >> days to rebuild it only because I wasn't familiar with out-of-the tree > >> build > >> system. (Had to read building instructions first, yeah...) > >> Now, I'm a happy owner of a custom cygpath that doesn't annoy me with > >> insignificant warnings. > > > Wanna send the patch to cygwin-patches(*)? > > I'm not quite happy with it yet. I'll need to dig through that function > another pass to see, if I can completely avoid the code path in question > without harming any hamsters in process.
I'm *so* glad you're sympathetic with the hamsters. They have build their lair inside of cygpath alreasy years ago, so I would not like to disturb them. > Besides, when I digged through it, I got an idea of completely new > functionality. That may be the one I want to contribute. As for new functionality and non-trivial patches, I'm sorry but we still need the copyright assignment in this case. I know that people are shying away from it, so I hope there still some who don't... See http://cygwin.com/contrib.html, the "Before you get started" section. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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