Well.... problem #1: Most of the original development team is gone. I can't even really claim to be an original--I joined maybe 3 or 4 months in as a crash-tester. #2: People expect me to tell them what to do. Kevin had big problems with this too. Find something that annoys you and fix it. #3: People expect that they can't do any work on something that seems broken--and stop trying #4: People aren't willing to go through the long and dirty process of collecting error messages and troubleshooting them.
I can't put all of my time into this project, but I'm going to be here to the end--whatever that may be. I'm very annoyed that people think that the CVS needs to be moved before they can start work--as that is bullshit. I've been working off of 2 different CVS versions--it can be done. I've put up some TODO's on savannah more than anything else in the hopes that people will see the task lists and say "I can work on that," or "hey something needs to be done about this, and it isn't on the list." At least there has been traffic on this mailinglist--even if it has been opinionated garbage and SPAM in some cases. There is stuff to do. Chistophe could use some help streamlining the plugin system. There has been talk about modding the device I/O for some time here--since April last year. My ideas turned out not to be useful, but Eric Laberge's basic plugin framework has caught on in both plex86 and in bochs. There are lots of odd error messages still not fixed, lots of emulation bugs, and lots of speed issues to solve. And, probably most importantly, the GUI seems to have some problems. If it doesn't work for you then we need to figure out why. If it does, same thing. I can't do all of this myself. Nobody can. Please pick something about plex86 that you think that you can make better, play with it, and send in a patch for everybody else to see. On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Rustem, Yul wrote: > I've been following this list for over two years now & nothing has > happened... > > VMWare is up to version 3+ > > Why? > > Yul Rustem > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ged Haywood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 12 April 2002 8:40 AM > To: Joaquim Carvalho > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [plex86] bye > > Hi all, > > On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Joaquim Carvalho wrote: > > > I joined the list because I wanted to help. > > I'm a programmer. > > I was on the list for almost an year. > > Nothing happened. > > You all talk about irrelevant stuff. > > I could say a lot more but I don't want to. > > Decades will pass and plex86 will still be stuck. > > This is all childish and silly in a bad way. > > Goodbye to you all. > > He's right. > > Goodbye from me too. > > 73, > Ged. > > |^^^ | | |^^| |^^^ Drew Northup, N1XIM |^^| | |^^^ \ / /^^\ /^^~ |__ | | | | | |__| | |___ \/ |__| |__ | | | | | | www.plex86.org | | | /\ | | | \ ___| |__| |__| |___ web.syr.edu/~suoc/ | |___ |___ / \ __/ __/
