RE: I love the idea, and I want to help, but. . .

[Harold Hunt <Harold at compasstechnologies dot com>]

Suhaib,

I understand that you are busy with other things, that's why I think that it
would be wise to spend you next few project hours ensuring that it is easy
for others to begin contributing to the project. . .

Harold L Hunt II
Phone: 800-850-1616 ext 108
Email: harold@compasstechnologies.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Suhaib Siddiqi [mailto:ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com]
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 6:01 PM
To: Robert Collins; Cygx (E-mail)
Subject: RE: I love the idea, and I want to help, but. . .


Well the problem is I am the only one doing it.  I got a lot of
respobsibilities at
my real WORK place.  These kind of projects are usually beyond one person
ability to manage.
Beside I cannot sit on PC all weekends every weekend, I need to have life
to, and spend time
with family members....

Suhaib


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Robert
> Collins
> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 5:58 PM
> To: Cygx (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: I love the idea, and I want to help, but. . .
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harold Hunt" <Harold@compasstechnologies.com>
> To: "Cygx (E-mail)" <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 6:55 AM
> Subject: I love the idea, and I want to help, but. . .
>
>
> > I can't even get the binaries to work.
>
> Is there anything specifically you can't get to work? Have you
> looked at the
> recent mailing list archives? It runs fine for me, and when
> libtool gets its
> kinks out I'm hoping to run gnome on X on win 2000....
>
> > I would love to help with the project, as I believe it is essential to
> > transition the business world to GNU/Linux, but I need to see something
> that
> > works before I can see where I could help out.  So, here's a few
> suggestions
> > that might help generate interest in cygwin-xfree:
> >
> > 1) Please, update the FAQ.  I hasn't been updated since November, 1999,
> and
> > it appears to have no relation to the current state of the project.
> > 2) Update the project home page to reflect the correct way to get the
> > binaries to work.  (The home page references a deprecated version of
> cygwin,
> > and the documentation on the DirectX X/Server is confusing and
> there isn't
> > much of it)
> > 3) Reference the specific binary packages needed in the FAQ and on the
> home
> > page (currently, there are so many packages, that I can't
> figure out which
> > ones I really need)
> >
> > I'm sure that you want this project to succeeded, so I think
> that a couple
> > hours of updating the resources to attract other programmers
> would be very
> > beneficial to the project, even more beneficial than a few hours of
> > programming, as an updated web site will allow the rest of us developers
> to
> > jump in.
> >
> > Thank you for your time, and I'll be watching, and hoping for updates :)
> >
> > Harold L Hunt II
> > Phone: 800-850-1616 ext 108
> > Email: harold@compasstechnologies.com
> >
> >