Re: Where's those flying monkeys?

On 2004-06-27 17:09:57 +0800 James Harr <[email protected]> wrote:

> As mark pointed out a while ago, linux only had a few developers to 
> start 
> with, but grew slowly. It's a lot better than having lots of 
> developers, then 
> have interest drop off completely.
> 
> If that slashdot thing was serious, I think it'd be best that we let 
> slashdot 
> give us traffic whenever they feel like it because a short burst of 
> developers won't help very much, just create a lot of noise. The 
> advantage of 
> long term developers is that they learn the structure of the project 
> rather 
> than making a patch that fixes one thing, but invisibly breaks 3 
> others.
> 
>> (Yes, I'm another hypocrite that contributes nothing to Y.)
> ditto

> I was (and still am) planning on exploring Y a little bit and 
> documenting how 
> to use some of the things i find and then submitting that 
> documentation for 
> the y website, however I haven't found time or haven't been very 
> dedicated :)
> 

I agree with that. I think we need a few dedicated developers to fully 
explore the whole thing. Im rebuilding my whole distro so im not at 
the point where i can hack Y. i have to have a running fbdev/dri 
first. What i have done so far is to tear the Y source tree to pieces 
and build it using gnustep-make.