From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 16 16:10:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27B5114CA5 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 16:10:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: from bb-b1-11a (ppp70.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.70]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA16604; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 16:06:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 16:06:10 -0700 () From: Rick Hamell To: Licia Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: application developers [ was Jordan the Confused (Was: Jordan The Evil!) ] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@dsinw.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > for people who talk about becoming involved with the FreeBSD project, bad bad > way to handle people considering writing applications for it. I'm about to > cancel one of my projects (bouncer) for example, simply because I have not > managed to get -any- serious alpha testers, or even any feedback on it and > it's either cancel it or move it to Linux, and I don't want to waste one of my > machines to install Linux on. What is bouncer? :) You have some good points though. Even being a relative newbie I see this problem, especially on the mailing lists. In fact there is someone right now complaining that he's sent 5 messages and not gotten an answer for any of them. :( I'd help... but I don't have the experience/knowledge yet to be able to do so. Heck, I'm still trying to figure out the differances between 2.2.8 and 3.1 and how it affects me...:) Perhaps part of our advocacy should be to encourage such projects? Not just encourage a growth in the user base. For me personally there are so many areas I'd like to contribute, the Sparc Project, the simplified PPP installation for other newbies, increased documentation AND pointers to that same documentation, updated CAM drivers for some of the older Adaptec cards, etc, etc, etc. I sure that y'all have a hundred other 'little' things that 'need' to be done too. Perchance getting somebody else to do the little things would get them more interested in FreeBSD, and in turn help the entire project? Rick ---- "Buckaroo, the Presidents on the line, he wants to know if everything is ok or should we nuke Russia?" "Tell him yes on one and no on two." "Was that yes to nuke Russia?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message