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Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:37:35 -0400
- Subject: Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)
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On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:30:53AM +0100, raphael wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 07:22:35PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>However, this really side steps the issue. Five hundred "How do I get
>>to the previous command in bash?" questions are not going to lead to
>>new insight about cygwin.
>
>Yes they will. These questions are asked by starting users who are new
>to posix but might very well be window guru's. Currently they are
>being putt off in a very rude way by a few people, thus cutting into
>Cygwins future potential.
Please provide the URL of such a reply. Stating that a thing is so
without proof is not useful.
I see many people patiently answering "newbie" questions here. Surely
everyone has seen answers from (to name a few) Randle Schulz, Larry
Hall, Igor Pechtchanski, and Robert Collins.
I won't deny that occasionally people (like me, maybe) come across as
being brusque but I really don't think that people aren't being helped
here. Even if it was the case, I don't see how a newsgroup would
magically get people helped. All that it would take would be one
brusque person and there you go.
>I refuse to believe that it is hystorical that so many developers come
>from a *.nix background and so few if any from the windows side.
It doesn't matter where people come from. Theoretically everyone can
be taught where and how to find answers.
>Eventually IMHO the current behaviour will slow down intergration of
>cygwin into windows.
I don't see how. The project seems to grow more popular every day.
Letting people ask any old question without attempting to rein in the
questions to something manageable doesn't seem like a good way to ensure
project growth. It seems more like an invitation to chaos to me.
>>That's what we're talking about. A question like (to use a recent
>>example) "Why doesn't vim notice when I resize a console window under
>>cygwin?" will lead to cygwin insights. I'd rather see those kind of
>>questions asked in the official forum and point the bash people to the
>>appropriate documentation.
>
>Isn't that what the development list is actually for?
No. It isn't. Why would anyone be arguing with me about this? I don't
get it. I wrote most of the words on project page. Do you think I'm
going to slap my forehead and say "Aha! The developers list! I forgot
all about that!"
>What is the development list for, I see most development done here.
Check out http://cygwin.com/list.html for a description of what the
mailing lists are for. It sounds like all of the proponents of this
newsgroup should be checking this out.
cgf
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