> We've already mentioned that we need help improving our documentation.
> The documentation at the Cygwin site should, in a perfect world, contain
> what a user needs and there should be no need to go to google for
> information. So, rather than invent some convention to make it easy
> to look up
>>interest in a forum. My idea was something like wikipedia with more
This technology is called wiki or wikiwiki.
> We've already mentioned that we need help improving our documentation.
> The documentation at the Cygwin site should, in a perfect world, contain
A wiki on cygwin.com would enable
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 08:32:21PM -0500, mike marchywka wrote:
>I have actually thought of starting my own forum for a different field
>after contacting the site that inspired my interest, they had no
>interest in a forum. My idea was something like wikipedia with more
>prominence to the discussi
On 10/8/10, Al wrote:
>> Yep, pretty much all of that. It's not what was said (which sounds
>> fine when you paraphrase it as you have), but the way it was said. It
>> was my reaction to reading the thread in one sitting, especially as I
>> thought the OP had good intentions.
>>
>
> The OP obvious
> Yep, pretty much all of that. It's not what was said (which sounds
> fine when you paraphrase it as you have), but the way it was said. It
> was my reaction to reading the thread in one sitting, especially as I
> thought the OP had good intentions.
>
The OP obviously has good intentions, because
Greetings, David Antliff!
> What a disappointing trail of negativity and discouragement.
Sure it was. Probably more rough and heavy, than necessary, but if it served
the purpose, I feel fine for it.
> Isn't the need to create a separate, hopefully more welcoming
> environment now painfully obvio
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 12:17:16AM +0200, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
>just my 2 pence
And here's mine:
It just occurred to me that we already have something like this with the
Cygwin irc channel at freenode. It's populated mainly by cygwin novices
who either just plaintively send out queries, wait a
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:09, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 09:46:28AM +1300, David Antliff wrote:
>>What a disappointing trail of negativity and discouragement.
> What, specifically was "negative" and "discouraging"?
>
> Was it:
>
> A random mailing list user expressing disl
David Antliff writes:
> What a disappointing trail of negativity and discouragement.
>
> Isn't the need to create a separate, hopefully more welcoming
> environment now painfully obvious?
>
At first sight, you may be right. However, the OP's approach was a bit
strange as well. He silently c
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 09:46:28AM +1300, David Antliff wrote:
>What a disappointing trail of negativity and discouragement.
>
>Isn't the need to create a separate, hopefully more welcoming
>environment now painfully obvious?
What, specifically was "negative" and "discouraging"?
Was it:
A random
What a disappointing trail of negativity and discouragement.
Isn't the need to create a separate, hopefully more welcoming
environment now painfully obvious?
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Greetings, CygwinForums!
> We just started a Cygwin based forum
You mean web-forum? As in, http:... Bleh.
Forum is probably the worst possible collaboration platform ever created. You
spend hours effortlessly clicking links in a window for nothing, instead of
just having a chat with people.
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> I designed our forum to help users that are *NEW* to Cygwin, more for
> discussion of the programs uses and empowering users, rather that direct
> support of issues.
OK. I can see that there would be a place for that. And no doubt many
users are put off by the sometimes harsh tone of conversat
On 10/6/2010 8:49 AM, NightStrike wrote:
>> We support Cygwin users here, on this list. What exactly does your forum
>> provide that this list doesn't?
>
> Just a guess: courtesy and patience? :) :)
NS, you are doing it again.
Only this time, with the cygwin community rather than the mingw.org
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Andrew Schulman
wrote:
>> We just started a Cygwin based forum in an attempt to build the Cygwin users
>> community support for newer users. We need some forum mods to assist in the
>> everyday tasks, as well as provide support for our users.
>
> We support Cygwin u
Am 06.10.2010 13:05, schrieb CygwinForums:
>
> I designed our forum to help users that are *NEW* to Cygwin, more for
> discussion of the programs uses and empowering users, rather that direct
> support of issues.
>
> I am very open to ideas, as this project was designed to aid the community,
> no
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> everyday tasks, as well as provide support for our users.
We support Cygwin users here, on this list. What exactly does your forum
provide
Am 06.10.2010 10:12, schrieb CygwinForums:
>
> We just started a Cygwin based forum in an attempt to build the Cygwin users
> community support for newer users. We need some forum mods to assist in the
> everyday tasks, as well as provide support for our users.
Bad idea IMO. As though such fragme
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