Re: RFC: adding fd-passing to win32

On Wed, 7 Sep 2022 13:06:14 +0200, David Rheinsberg wrote:

> In my opinion, stating that maintainers are "very busy people" and
> have "less interest" in a supported target does not encourage
> contribution, nor does it establish a welcoming community.

The community has to establish itself. If there are contributors with
something to contribute, go right ahead and contribute it.

I have already pointed out that your energies are probably most
fruitfully directed towards helping a project like Cygwin, which is
already so close to supporting most POSIX-style functionality, to
becoming even more functional and able to support the full D-Bus
protocol natively, rather than trying to butcher and mangle D-Bus to
make it easier to implement on native Windows.

> My criticism was that telling people change is troublesome will
> deter them from contributing. What is the point of collaboration if
> we do not appreciate the troubles of change?

Remember that you have to get people enthusiastic about wanting to
contribute. Because that’s how Open Source works. If you find the
existing D-Bus contributors unenthusiastic about your ideas, don’t
blame them.