Re: Quick question... Is this project dead?!

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 05:53:04PM -0600, Brandon Black wrote:
> I wouldn't call that a criticism of the project as much as just a
> statement of fact.  Designing and coding something like Y-windows and
> doing it right is high-end stuff, it's not really territory for
> someone who isn't already intimately familiar with these kinds of
> things.

That's pretty much why I haven't wasted any time on hand-holding
here. Anybody who can't figure this basic stuff out on their own isn't
going to be able to contribute anything useful anyway.

> On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 18:13:00 -0400, Jacob O'Reilly <[email protected]> wrote:
> > As much as it pains me to reply to this, and as much as none of us has much
> > right to demand anything... I must say that I have one simple criticism of
> > the project:  The level of experience and maturity needed to contribute is
> > fairly high.
> > 
> > Of course, it's not Andrew Suffield's job to hand-hold people through their
> > own learning curve, but perhaps someone out there can volunteer for that
> > position, so that the interested (but green) parties can help each other.
> > 
> > On y-windows.org you can see the road map mentioning features and planned
> > releases, perhaps someone can share how we are doing on achieving version
> > 0.3 features?

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