Re: New Project (was RE: X client wrapper for Win apps?)

[David Fraser <davidf at sjsoft dot com>]

OK. Let's use win32-x11@sources.redhat.com for the mean time if there is 
any discussion
needed. Once it's going we can discuss elsewhere. It would be really 
nice to have this hosted
at sources.redhat.com but actually at the moment we don't need that, we 
just need to start
developing. But that can all be discussed on that list. I've subscribed 
- Nicholas, unfortunately
it seems like you don't have wide backing for keeping the discussion 
going here, and it can't
really be that hard to subscribe to another list you can unsuscribe to 
later if neccessary...

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 03:05:05PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>  
> > I say move the discussion elsewhere.  I have put up with it for now, but 
> > it really needs to go so we can get back on topic here.
> >
> > Of course, with the level of continuous contributions flowing from other 
> > members of the Cygwin/XFree86 project, I can't hold out much hope for 
> > this new project.  Best of luck, but don't think much will happen after 
> > the excitement of picking a name, license, etc.  Of course, I love to be 
> > proven wrong with oodles of code.
> >    
> This was my impression, too, after having experienced this many times in
> cygwin and other projects (the freevms and debian-win32 projects spring
> to mind).  This is following the pattern by by discussing the trivial
> things like "what do we call it" and "where do we put it".  But,
> eventually all of the people who think it is a really good idea but have
> no actual experience to contribute will quiet down and you'll be left
> with the fact that no one has time to start a major new project.
>
> Actually, if you want an existing mailing list to discuss this on, you
> can use win32-x11@sources.redhat.com.  That was Suhaib's list but he's
> indicated that he's had to move on and the project is basically dead.
> The name even makes a certain amount of sense.
>
> You can use that for the discussion until an actual project name is
> chosen.  At that point, I'm happy to set up what is required on
> sources.redhat.com.
>
> Don't let my pessimism (or Harold's) stop you if you are fired up about
> this but please be aware that this will require substantial work,
> probably by more than one person.  You'll probably need a project lead,
> too, if you want this to succeed.
>
> cgf
>
>