On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:17 PM, David Korn <[email protected]> wrote: > cc: [email protected] [email protected] > Subject: Re: Re: [ast-users] [uwin-users] uwin-users Digest, Vol 98, Issue 10 > -------- > >> Try one: I assume AT&T has documentation writers. Could they spare a >> few manhours a week to work on the documentation for UWIN and AST? >> Try two: Building UWIN counts IMO as black art. Is there any engineer >> or fellow researcher not involved in UWIN who can try to build it with >> gcc and document the effort? If normal people can build UWIN >> themselves then a lot more people could join the boat. >> >> > > There might be some documentation writers in some departments (for > example public relations), but there are none in research. > > One reason for making UWIN OpenSource was to get people to do some > of this work. We can be helpful in reading over documentation and > providing bug fixed, but the community as a whole is needed.
Right now the community (as it feels from being outside AT&T) is locked out. There's no GIT (why GIT anyway with so few developers? Why not SVN?) for your development trunk, there's no way to build UWIN the easy way, or built it at all (yes, I tried. Two coworkers with PhD in Informatics tried too. All three without success) and there is no darn documentation or a way to provide issue-specific feedback with issue life cycle management (Trac, Bugzilla, ...). AT&T has to provide a basis for a community which goes beyond a mailinglist. Without that happening you can scream community over and over again but help won't happen from that direction. > > We wrote a faster an more reliable Unix for Windows that Cygwin and > it is up the the user community to help enhance it. The community as you want it is currently locked out. And honestly, I think you guys need external help building a community because the snake is biting itself into its own tail all over and over again. Someone has to break that endless loop. Simon _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
