From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Hans" Subject: Re: New user wanting to help Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:34:57 -0000 Message-ID: <03a601c82ac1$bffca740$6402a8c0@linux104> References: <33315.1756.qm@web50504.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <4740B884.8070200@nc.rr.com> <012801c82a8f$9d009490$6402a8c0@linux104> <47419CEC.2050709@nc.rr.com> Reply-To: "Hans" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii"; reply-type="response" To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org Jody, You behave a bit like a little kid stamping its feet, using phrases like "provides me precisely USD$0.00 in compensation" and "have other things to worry about ". This is not the attitude of a GNU project site maintainer which you volunteered for! If you don't have the time to maintain the website, i.e. as a minimum keep the "latest news" page up2date (which shouldn't take you more than 10 minutes) than ask somebody else to do it! Hans www.ht-lab.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "JBRUCHON" To: Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 2:25 PM Subject: Re: New user wanting to help > Or, as "THE site admin," I could just be human like the other 20 or so > "site admins" and have other things to worry about beyond following links > and editing HTML when I have bills to pay. No one here has any right to > tell me what I "should" do when doing so provides me precisely USD$0.00 in > compensation. I can convert that amount to Euros or CDN$ or whatever you > happen to use if you like, but I'm pretty sure that the conversion is > quite easily done by anyone interested in doing such. > > Whatever I happen to do comes from the goodness of my own heart and my > desire to further such a project. When the priority of ELKS is trumped by > the priority of Real Life(tm), I'll do "what I should do." Until then, > you can either have patience and wait for me to get free time to do it > when life permits such, you can "raise the priority of ELKS" by channeling > compensation my way, or you can request addition to the developer list > like I did. I'm not a project admin, so I don't have privileges to add > new admins or developers, so don't ask. > > I'm sure, since they seem to still get this mailing list, that Alan Cox > and others can back up the fact that other aspects of life can easily take > precedence over ELKS. That, as I understand it, is what happened to them. > > In the meantime, please don't make demands of a free volunteer, even if > you try to cushion it with the "I don't mean to sound like this, but..." > preface. You may not want to sound that way, but guess what? You do. > It's disrespectful and rude. Solutions provided above. > > > > **** tl;dr: I'll do it when time permits. > > > Jody > > > Hans wrote: >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "JBRUCHON" >> To: >> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 10:11 PM >> Subject: Re: New user wanting to help >> >> >>> I'm sort of the current maintainer of the site and the project, but have >>> no access to the mailing list setup at all. >>> >>> I'm a fairly busy person so I don't do much without being asked to do >>> it, and my web-fu sucks pretty bad. >> >> Sorry Jody, I don't want to sound nasty since I have done 0% contribution >> myself but we shouldn't have to tell you to add a link. When somebody >> like Bram Lohman emails the list that he has Elks running on an emulator >> and that is it freely available to download than you as the site admin >> should, as a bare minimum, add the link without one of us telling you to >> do so. >> >> Since you are very busy (which I fully understand) can I suggest you >> share the admin details with a few more people or better speak to Mario >> to get a wiki page added. >> >> Back to work :-) >> >> Regards, >> Hans. >> www.ht-lab.com >> >> >>> >>> If you want something in particular done, give me the resources and I'll >>> get it done. >>> >>> Ben Weiss wrote: >>>> --- Hans wrote: >>>> >>>>> I am a bit disappointed that Rask Lambertsen's GCC >>>>> port and the Dioscuri emulator (which runs ELKS!) are not mentioned on >>>>> the >>>>> website, come on guys, it can't be that much work to add some >>>>> hyperlinks... >>>> >>>> This seems like the easiest thing to fix first, and >>>> makes the project "look" better, so I'd be happy to >>>> provide some updates to the site. Not too much for >>>> now, just keeping with static pages- fixing broken >>>> links, adding some (ie Rasks's port), etc. Does anyone >>>> know who needs to be contacted to update the archive >>>> mentioned on vger.kernel.org? Is this list still even >>>> being archived, or do we have to "sign up" for it? (If >>>> so, gmane comes to mind...) >>>> >>>>> Compiling ELKS under GCC is not going to be >>>>> easy but IMHO will be very beneficial for the wider embedded user >>>>> community and >>>>> hence will/might increase the popularity of ELKS. >>>> >>>> Sounds like great minds think alike :) >>>> Not only is GCC much more popular and continuously >>>> maintained, but apparently GCC (GAS, rather) uses AT&T >>>> syntax, and BCC uses Intel syntax. Since Linux uses >>>> GCC, it follows that modifying/porting to ELKS would >>>> be easier if we also use GCC. -Ben >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ____________________________________________________________________________________ >>>> Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. 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