Re: forwarded message from Satish Athreya

On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Egbert Eich wrote:

> > Unfortunately in my experience, emails like this usually end at about this 
> > point.  You can reply or not, but whatever effort goes into it is usually 
> > wasted.
> > 
> > When people post a patch or an informed-looking problem report, take them 
> > seriously & consider investing your own time in guiding their efforts.  When 
> > they say "here I am now, what should I start coding?", the best idea is to 
> > point them at a publicly hosted newbies-todo-list - chances are that's the 
> > last you'll hear of them.
> > 
>
>Right. 
>
>A while ago we had somebody who told us that he has a driver for
>Nvidia with full 3D acceleration for 3.x and 4.x ;-)
>He wanted to know how to get it integrated. He even wrote twice. 
>So we don't get blamed of doing nothing some others and I replied.
>
>That was it ;-|

Actually, that guy has come back now a few times on a couple of 
different lists.  He's definitely doing something although I'm 
not sure what it really is or how far he is getting or will get 
without Nvidia documentation.

My take is that he is hacking on something and has good 
intentions, but that what he is trying to accomplish is probably 
beyond reach due to lack of documentation and probably other 
factors.  He comes across as good intentioned, but a bit 
unrealistic in the goal setting department.  ;o)


-- 
Mike A. Harris