On 16/10/15 18:27, Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 07:00:13PM +0300, Samuli Seppänen wrote: >> I'm thinking it might make sense to create a dedicated Windows team that >> could share the burden of Windows issues amongst themselves, without any >> one person gettings tagged the "Windows guy". I would naturally be part >> of the team, because I already build the official OpenVPN installers and >> tap-windows drivers, plus I've worked with openvpn-gui quite a lot and >> am working on a replacement for openvpnserv.exe. >> >> The Windows team could have a separate board on OpenVPN forums and maybe >> even a separate IRC channel. This is fairly typical arrangement in Linux >> distributions, which have topic- and language-specific groups. We could >> then point people with Windows issues/patches/development questions etc. >> to the Windows team. > > I'm not entirely sure where to recruit all this people you want to put > on the windows team :-) - but *if* you find them, I do not think we need > a separate trac or IRC channel. It's "openvpn devel" after all, as > we're discussing FreeBSD and Linux stuff in the main group as well... > > Should we manage to recruit 20 extra developers, and the volume in IRC > becomes unbearable, I reserve the right to change my opinion, though :-)
+1 ... I share the same thoughts as Gert. I'd love to see more developers interested in Windows code paths showing up. But it seems such people don't grow on trees these days either. Heiko has done a marvellous job getting OpenVPN-GUI to where it is today, and have come quite far on the path forward too. However, I believe everyone will benefit if he gets some real help from interested people. And while we're at it ... can someone manage to shutdown the openvpn.se site? It still ships OpenVPN 2.0.9 as the latest stable release for Windows without pointing people to a better place to look. At least get a big fat "Nothing to see here, please move along"-warning. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth
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