Computer Science

[Brian Inglis]

On 2024-10-15 16:00, Jonathan Chapman-Moore via Cygwin wrote:
> I've always wondered why software has maintainers not set forth by their graduating universities.

Ability to communicate clearly in English is a prerequsite.
I suspect all software has maintainers who have been set forth in their diplomas 
by their graduating universities.

> I am a 2000 computer science graduate. 

Do you mean high school, community college, university, postgrad, or something 
else?

> With straight A's in prep school I disapprove of the lists on Cygwin

Who cares what you got in elementary school, or did you prep for some later 
grade of education?

Perhaps you could state why and in what manner you disapprove of which lists?

> As I would like to be a IceWM maintainer but not with every other stock boy in America without a
> Computer science degree.

It requires a fair amount of maturity and experience with production software 
design, development, and maintenance, the common toolchain, and desire to 
improve, support, or provide packages that do not increase the burden on other 
developers, packagers, or users, to be a maintainer.

> it degrades the sustainability of every one else on a computer.

It appears that most software package designers, developers, maintainers, 
distributors, and users manage to sustain positive productive coexistence.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer     but when there is no more to cut
                                 -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry