Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> >> >> 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. I knew you love them too. >> 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. I honestly don't care. I do not understand whole tantrum around "copyright", "copywrong" and other "copyleft". What the hell you can do about it? Pick a spoon, crack my head open and drain it out of my brain? Whatever I release to the public, I mainly do that under WTF PL. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 13.04.2014, <02:41> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple