> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of David Christensen > Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 4:15 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the > whole Cygwin release/ distribution .... .... > > I don't think there are enough potential volunteer man-hours to make > such a thing feasible. > > I disagree. Assume for a moment that all Cygwin project member > development efforts can be put into the following bins: > > 1. Code development. > > 2. Design documentation. > > 3. Test suite development. > > 4. Test suite documentation. > > 5. Test suite execution and reporting. > > 6. User documentation. > > 7. Packaging for distribution. > > 8. Infrastructure development. > > 9. Infrastructure administration. > > 10. Version control/ configuration management of all of the above. > > 11. Personnel leadership and project management. > > It would seem that bin #1 is consuming the majority of the effort. I > think that by changing priorities and re-allocating people and > resources, it should be possible to create integration tests and a > "stable" distribution. Such would increase Cygwin's acceptance and > usage for potentially hundreds of millions of people. Is this not a > good thing?
It seems to me that as it is a volunteer community, the people in question would need to volunteer to be re-allocated. This does not seem to be happening. :-) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
